john:
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:27:43PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Following discussion, I've tagged FPS 0.4, a candidate for the base library. Changes:
* Renamed to Data.ByteString(ByteString) * Improved documentation * Tweaks to build under ghc 6.6 * Added: getLine, getContents, putStr, putStrLn, zip, unzip, zipWith * Much faster: elemIndices, lineIndices, split, replicate * More automagic benchmarks and QuickCheck tests.
Can we get rid of every reference to 'Char' in the interface? a search and replace setting them to 'Word8' should do it. Casting between Word8 and Char is just very wrong. a Char based FastString can be built on top of it, but we want to be typesafe in any interface.
Ok. I appreciate this concern. I'll follow Simon Marlow's library here and partition it into, something like: Data.ByteString -- the core ByteString and Word8 operations Data.PackedString.Latin1 -- Char level packed string functions John (and Ashley?) would this be ok? -- Don