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

On 22.03.2010 14:15, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:

On 23 March 2010 00:10, Johan Tibell wrote:

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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.

Though Data.Text still has the disadvantage of not being as nice to deal with as String, since you can't pattern match on it, etc.

Whilst it may degrade performance, treating String as a list of characters rather than an array provides you with greater flexibility of how to deal with it.

But doesn't this basically mean sacrifice performance / applicability for algorithmic beauty? Sure, pattern match comes in handy, but in the case of strings at a high price