[Haskell-beginners] Data.Char: isAlpha vs. isLetter

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Stayvoid <stayvoid at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the reason to have both isAlpha and isLetter?
>

Probably an alias for backward compatibility; isAlpha is C-style <ctype.h>
stuff, which was ASCII only, whereas isLetter is Unicode style.

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