[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: text 0.8.0.0, fast Unicode text support

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 1 September 2010 16:27, David Virebayre <dav.vire+haskell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/9/1 Tako Schotanus <tako at codejive.org>:
>> As a Haskell noob I'm curious about this statement, is there something
>> intrinsically wrong with String?
>
> String is just a linked list of Char which are unicode code points;
> which is probably not the optimal way to store text.
> For intensive use of text it takes too much memory, and/or it's not
> fast enough.
>
> Sometimes I'd love if I could program using String and the compiler
> would automatically convert that to Text, or Bytestrings, but of
> course it's wishful thinking.

Well, there's OverloadedStrings for String literals...

But the problem with automagic conversion would be one of encoding for
Bytestrings at least.

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