1 Sep
2010
1 Sep
'10
2:27 a.m.
2010/9/1 Tako Schotanus
As a Haskell noob I'm curious about this statement, is there something intrinsically wrong with String?
String is just a linked list of Char which are unicode code points; which is probably not the optimal way to store text. For intensive use of text it takes too much memory, and/or it's not fast enough. Sometimes I'd love if I could program using String and the compiler would automatically convert that to Text, or Bytestrings, but of course it's wishful thinking. David.