[Haskell-cafe] Strings - why [Char] is not nice

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, MR K P SCHUPKE wrote:

> Would it not bet better is String were a typeclass instead of a data type.

It would be nice to have a Sequence type class which provides a uniform
interface for common operations on List and Array, Lists of Arrays and so
on. Then String could be based on whatever implementation of a Sequence.