[Haskell-cafe] Re: FastString a misnomer

[Aaron Denney]

On 2005-10-21, Udo Stenzel <u.stenzel at web.de> wrote:
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> John Meacham wrote:
>> We should make 'PackedString' the UTF8 wrapper though and provide
>> Data.ByteArray as a separate library.
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> What exactly would an UTF8 wrapper do?  Would it have a different
> interface than a list (cons/nil/null/head/tail) and how would that be
> implemented?  If not, why isn't a list good enough?

One could grab by-character rather than by-byte.

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Aaron Denney
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