Message: 3
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:51:46 +0100
From: Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
Subject: Re: Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'text' library
To: libraries@haskell.org
Message-ID: <20101011205146.GA29025@matrix.chaos.earth.li>
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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>
> of the Data.Text package on the basis that Char/Text are the "same"
> thing, then it may become clearer how to resolve the apparent name/type
> clashes below.

But this doesn't allow the multi-Char functions to be added to
byetstring/List with the same name. For example:

>> split       -         -              Text -> Text -> [Text]
>> -           -         split          Char -> Text -> [Text]
>
>   split       -         split          Text -> Text ->  [Text]
>
> Proposal: these are equivalent, no action,

I can do
   split "\r\n"
or
   split ", "
etc with a text, but not with a bytestring, and if we agree to add that
functionality to bytestring then we'll have to call it splitString or
splitMany or some other, different, name.