5 Apr
2008
5 Apr
'08
12:11 a.m.
On 04/04/2008, at 9:27 PM, John Goerzen wrote:
I can see this being a performance and ease-of-use win in some situations. I don't think it's an actual feature difference, though. If you can represent it as a [Word8], you can represent it as a [Char], and it will be converted to the same underlying data for the trip through FFI.
Sure. I prefer to keep things separate: Char is for Unicode characters, [Word8]/ByteString is for concrete representations. It's more about type safety than efficiency. cheers peter