Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/15/10 11:25 , Bill Atkins wrote:

No, not really. Linked lists are very easy to deal with recursively and Strings automatically work with any already-defined list functions.

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH mailto:allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:

More to the point, there's nothing elegant about [Char] --- its sole "advantage" is requiring no thought.

Except that it seems to me that a number of functions in Data.List are really functions on Strings and not especially useful on generic lists. There is overlap but it's not as large as might be thought. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxoFt4ACgkQIn7hlCsL25V+OACfXngN6ZX5L7AL153AkRYDFnqZ jqsAnA3Lem5LioDVS5bc0ADGzHwWsKFE =ehkx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----