[Haskell-cafe] unicode text libraries

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Alexander Dunlap <
alexander.dunlap at gmail.com> wrote:


> I just have a question out of curiosity - why was the decision made to
> have Data.Text, uvector, and ByteString all separate data structures,
> rather than defining the string types in terms of uvector?
>

bytestring predates the other two libraries by several years. The underlying
stream type for uvector and text are almost the same, so they could in
principle be merged. There's a fair amount of duplication there, but uvector
is in some ways more complicated and in others much less thorough than text.
Merging them would be a lot of work!
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