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

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> It looks nice but is not really a solution for passing large amounts
> of data efficiently. Converting everything to String creates too much
> overhead for large chunks of data.

There is uncons, which never creates big strings. But yes, adding more
bulk operations (i.e. lookup) might be necessary to make it widely
useful.

Thanks

Neil