6 Aug
2002
6 Aug
'02
12:46 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 05:38:13AM -0700, John Meacham wrote:
One major nit I have with this is the type signature of decodeUTF8 and encodeUTF8 a String should always represent a string of characters, not a byte stream, the signatures should be
decodeUTF8 :: String -> [Word8] encodeUTF8 :: [Word8] -> String I guess that is a good point, but due to backwards compatibility this is propably not acceptable: The C interface of the FFI has the string functions: peekCString :: CString -> IO String newCString :: String -> IO CString
which should really be peekCString :: CString -> IO [Word8] newCString :: [Word8] -> IO CString Unless that changes, there is really no point to give the encode and decode functions that type. Axel.