On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 07:14, John Millikin <jmillikin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't forget, you can always improve the text library yourself. I love to receive
> patches, requests for improvement, and bug reports.

Are there any areas in particular you'd like help with, for either
library? I'm happy to assist any effort which will help reduce use of
String.

As a Haskell noob I'm curious about this statement, is there something intrinsically wrong with String?

Or is it more a performance/resource problem when dealing with large amounts of text for example?

(Like having to use StringBuilder in Java if you want to avoid the penalty of repeated String allocations when simply concatenating for example)

Cheers,

-Tako