[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Ketil Malde wrote:

> Haskell does have a standard representation for strings, namely [Char].
> Unfortunately, this sacrifices efficiency for elegance, which gives rise
> to the plethora of libraries.

To have the default standard representation be one that works
so poorly for many common everyday tasks such as mangling
large chunks of XML is a large part of the problem.

Erik
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