13 Aug
2010
13 Aug
'10
9:01 p.m.
On Friday 13 August 2010 8:51:46 pm Evan Laforge wrote:
I have an app that is using Data.Text, however I'm thinking of switching to UTF8 bytestrings. The reasons are that there are two main things I do with text: pass it to a C API to display, and parse it. The C API expects UTF8, and the parser libraries with a reputation for being fast all seem to have bytestring inputs, but not Data.Text (I'm using unpack -> parsec, which is not optimal).
You should be able to use parsec with text. All you need to do is write a Stream instance: instance Monad m => Stream Text m Char where uncons = return . Text.uncons -- Dan