[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/15/10 11:25 , Bill Atkins wrote:
> No, not really.  Linked lists are very easy to deal with recursively and
> Strings automatically work with any already-defined list functions.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
> <allbery at ece.cmu.edu <mailto:allbery at ece.cmu.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     More to the point, there's nothing elegant about [Char] --- its sole
>     "advantage" is requiring no thought.

Except that it seems to me that a number of functions in Data.List are
really functions on Strings and not especially useful on generic lists.
There is overlap but it's not as large as might be thought.

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