Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is the #functional programming paradigm antithetical to efficient strings? #Haskell

On 07/11/2016 10:07 PM, David Feuer wrote:

Edward Kmett did some work with things he called "ropes" https://hackage..haskell.org/package/rope <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rope> that can be efficient for some byte string manipulations. There may be other good choices.

Yup, sometimes you want ropes (e.g. editors may benefit), other times you want VLists, etc. etc.