Re: String != [Char]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

C++'s char* is morally equivalent of our ByteString, not Text. There's no standardized C++ Unicode string type, ICU's UnicodeString is perhaps the closest to one.

Hmm, std::u16string, std::u23string, and std::wstring are C++ standard types to process Unicode texts. Anyway, my inclination is that having a proper string in Haskell type would be a Good Thing. Sometimes it is worth breaking the textbook. In our local Haskell system for AVR microcontrollers, we explicitly made String distinct from [Char] -- we cannot afford the memory inefficiency that [Char] entails, just to represent simple strings. -- Gaby