19 Mar
2012
19 Mar
'12
12:59 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Christian Siefkes
On 03/19/2012 04:53 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
I've been thinking about this question as well. How about
class IsString s where unpackCString :: Ptr Word8 -> CSize -> s
What's the Ptr Word8 supposed to contain? A UTF-8 encoded string?
Yes. We could make a distinction between byte and Unicode literals and have: class IsBytes a where unpackBytes :: Ptr Word8 -> Int -> a class IsText a where unpackText :: Ptr Word8 -> Int -> a In the latter the caller guarantees that the passed in pointer points to wellformed UTF-8 data. -- Johan