Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Strings - why [Char] is not nice

G'day all. Quoting John Goerzen :

* (++) is both a list and a string concatenation operator

This could easily be handle by a typeclass.

* Pattern matching works well with strings (that's my #1 gripe about strings in OCaml)

* Thanks to the laziness of Haskell lists, things such as "lines" are possible -- eliminating the hassle of loops/recursion to read file data or the ugliness of reading an entire file at once.

These are good arguments for making Strings, however they're implemented, _convertable_ to lazy lists. Much like all of the other containers which Haskell currently implements. Cheers, Andrew Bromage