Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: text 0.8.0.0, fast Unicode text support

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/2010 02:44 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

On 1 September 2010 16:27, David Virebayre wrote:

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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. Well, there's OverloadedStrings for String literals...

But the problem with automagic conversion would be one of encoding for Bytestrings at least.

This reminds me: it would be nice if Text, ByteString, etc. exported their own definitions of "type String". As most users have to import them qualified to avoid collisions with Data.List (and the Prelude?) anyway, this would enable someone to import their desired module as, say, S, then use type S.String and string ops S.foo. Anyone who *did* use them unqualified would have to add (hiding (String)) to their imports, of course. The flip side of this would be a module which contained the definition for String and re-exported Data.List, so that the above S.mumble could work for String as well. (The obvious choice would be Data.String, but that's taken for IsString and of course that would be required to pull this off so it can't just have the list implementation stuffed into it.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx/FsQACgkQIn7hlCsL25Vk8ACeKco9/IFwGi+8gc+BxSyT3QwY oP8An3oabG1lbXHChShbenEWj9HWEq6Q =PQsO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----