Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bytestrings and [Char]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Johann Höchtl wrote:

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My question or discussion point: Why not depreciate [Char] altogether and favour of lazy Bytestrings?

A sequence of bytes is not the same thing as a sequence of Unicode code points. If you want to replace String by something more efficient have a look at Data.Text.

Slight correction. A sequence of bytes is exactly the same thing as a sequence of Unicode bytes when you use UTF8.

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