[Haskell-cafe] Typeclass for functions taking different kinds of strings

[Johan Tibell]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Taru Karttunen <taruti at taruti.net> wrote:

> Hello
>
> It seems like a very common issue to have an API like:
>
> foo   :: String -> Foo
> fooBS :: ByteString -> Foo
> fooLBS:: L.ByteString -> Foo
>
> is there currently a library that makes unifying them easy?
>

They cannot be completely unified. A sequence of Unicode characters (String)
is not the same kind of thing as a sequence of bytes (ByteString). Going
between the two requires an encoding. A shared abstraction would support a
subset of operations that make sense on all sequences.

Cheers,

Johan
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