Cool! 
Looks like the approach there is to not have a character type, but treat code points as just tiny strings which can be mapped to integers?

I kind have this fuzzy idea Haskell and a lot of other languages use the extended ascii character set in a sortah punned way that conflates binary and textual data.  And that’s ignoring how most western / native English software folks naively treat  chars as graphemes / atomic units of rendering, when this falls apart when engineering for internationally friendly software.  

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 3:43 AM Hécate <hecate@glitchbra.in> wrote:

Carter, you might want to take a look at Elixir's standard library, which (in my experience) has a good position when it comes to graphemes https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/String.html

Le 27/06/2021 à 15:58, Carter Schonwald a écrit :
More deeply, it doesn’t suffice to guarantee you’re gonna have a well formed unicode sequence! 

It’d need to be grapheme -> text -> text  right?

I’ve def wanted to dig into how to make programming more grapheme oriented for text at some point.  I think swift explcitly does this in their standard libraries ?

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:37 AM Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 12:44, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de> wrote:
 > `intersperse :: Char -> Text -> Text`

Yeah, that looks silly indeed.  Should be pruned or marked as spam.

"Spam" is a bit harsh.  And it does indeed have some use (albeit primarily with test suites and quite possibly more efficient ways to do the required task anyway): https://github.com/search?l=Haskell&q=Text.intersperse&type=Code

 

On 2021-06-27 01:33, Andrew Lelechenko wrote:
> I know applications for `intercalate :: Text -> [Text] -> Text`: `unwords`, `unlines`, etc. But what is `intersperse :: Char -> Text -> Text` good for? Am I correct assuming that its sole merit is to mimic `Data.List` API? Note that `Data.List.intersperse` is polymorphic and is exceedingly rarely used for `Char -> String -> String`.
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