[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Abandoning String = [Char]?

Performance will go utterly out the window if you use pattern synonyms and the like to pretend that Text is [Char]. It would probably work fine (great, even) when matching, but code that assumes String=[Char] would be completely killed on the construction side, because building Text by consing, or repeatedly prepending small chunks, is ridiculously inefficient. These are the very things that are *efficient* with [Char], and that people have assumed to be efficient when writing code that uses it. On May 22, 2015 5:58 PM, "Carter Schonwald" wrote:

one direction that this thread has *COMPLETELY* overlooked is the following:

could we use pattern synonyms or something along those lines to make the migration to Text or the like more seemless?