Re: [Haskell-cafe] Motion to unify all the string data types

* Johan Tibell [2012-11-09 19:00:04-0800]

As a community we should primary use strict ByteStrings and Texts. There are uses for the lazy variants (i.e. they are sometimes more efficient), but in general the strict versions should be preferred.

I'm fairly surprised by this advice. I think that lazy BS/Text are a much safer default. If there's not much text it wouldn't matter anyway, but for large amounts using strict BS/Text would disable incremental producing/consuming (except when you're using some kind of an iteratee library). Can you explain your reasoning? Roman