On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 23:39 +0100, Lemmih wrote:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

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Google has today announced that they will be running their Summer of Code programme again this year. http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

haskell.org has had many student projects funded by this programme, in 2006 and 2007. Would you like to participate? Either as a student or a mentor?

I'd like to see a Unicode equivalent of ByteString and I'm willing to mentor someone who's willing to implement it.

Doesn't compact-string support unicode?

Yes but not everyone agrees that it had the right interface. There was an interesting discussion on #haskell a month or so ago on the question of whether a string type should be parametrised by an encoding type or not. John and I were amongst those of the view that it should not. I also noted to John earlier that a MSc student I'm supervising is expected to complete this project before the GSoC coding phase kicks off so it's probably not the best choice for a GSoC project. Duncan