[GHC] #710: library reorganisation
Simon Marlow
simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 05:34:05 EDT 2006
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> sorry for repetition, but ByteString library in its current state
> still don't replaces PackedString in functionality, because it don't
> support full Unicode range of chars
That's true, but frankly the current Data.PackedString is subsumed by
[Char], so there's no good reason to keep it. I'll stop saying that
Data.ByteString is replacing Data.PackedString to avoid confusion.
Would you like to write a Data.ByteString.UTF8 to fill the gap?
Cheers,
Simon
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