Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Proliferation of List-Like Types

Hi John! On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:39 PM, John Goerzen wrote:

3) Would it make sense to base as much code as possible in the Haskell core areound ListLike definitions? Here I think of functions such as lines and words, which make sense both on [Char] as well as ByteStrings.

I don't think the examples you gave (i.e. lines and words) make much sense on ByteStrings. You would have to assume that the sequence of bytes are in some particular Unicode encoding and thus words and lines will break if they get passed a ByteString using a different encoding. I don't think either of those two functions make sense on anything but sequence of character types like String. -- Johan