linesPS is not analagous to lines

[David Roundy]

I've just switched my code to use PackedStrings rather than Strings for
file contents, and ran into what appears to be a bug in the
Data.PackedString module in ghc 5.04.3.

unlines is the inverse of lines, since lines converts empty lines into
empty strings.  linesPS, however, ignores empty lines.  :(  It seems like
it would be a good idea to either fix this (which might not be a good idea,
if existing code depends on its current behavior), or add a note in the
documentation that it isn't analagous to lines, so that other people won't
make the same mistake based on its similar name.

My example program that demonstrates this:

import Data.PackedString

main = do
  temp <- return $ packString "hello\nworld\n\nI\njust\nskipped\n\n a line\n"
  putStr $ "The unlines of linesPSed version:\n\n"
  putStr $ unlines $ map unpackPS $ linesPS temp
  putStr $ "The unlines of linesed version:\n\n"
  putStr $ unlines $ lines $ unpackPS temp
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org