Hi Bryan and others,
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan
bytestring predates the other two libraries by several years. The underlying stream type for uvector and text are almost the same, so they could in principle be merged. There's a fair amount of duplication there, but uvector is in some ways more complicated and in others much less thorough than text. Merging them would be a lot of work!
If I may free-ride on this thread: how should one go about deriving a Data.Binary instance for text? It looks like doing it efficiently would require using some parts of the internal module that are not exposed, am I correct? I've been using "encodeUtf8", but that doesn't feel right. I don't know what to do, hopefully I'm missing something simple. I agree with Duncan, the text API is beautifully designed. Thanks! Paulo