Let's get this finished

George Russell ger at tzi.de
Wed Jan 10 08:28:27 EST 2001


Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
> > Is anybody actually depending on the old `CString'?  Or is
> > everybody using `PackedString' instead?
> 
> I don't believe anyone is using PackedString, except for Regex which
> arguably should be using CString instead.  I'd like to see a simpler
> PackedString which just corresponded to ByteArrays.
The current UniForM sources use both PackedString and CString in various
places.  The interface to PackedString happens to be documented, which was
why I thought it might be possible to rely on it.




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