Re: Why are strings linked lists?

G'day all. Quoting John Meacham <john@repetae.net>:

Something I'd like to see (perhaps a bit less drastic) would be a String class, similar to Num so string constants would have type String a => a

Interesting that you mention this. I've also been thinking about this lately in the context of the discussion on collections and the left-fold combinator both here and on LtU. When people say "I want String to be [Char]", what I'm actually hearing is "I want String to be a collection of Char". I may be mishearing. Cheers, Andrew Bromage