[Haskell-cafe] Is the #functional programming paradigm antithetical to efficient strings? #Haskell

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 07/11/2016 10:07 PM, David Feuer wrote:
> Edward Kmett did some work with things he called "ropes"
> https://hackage..haskell.org/package/rope
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rope> that can be efficient for
> some byte string manipulations. There may be other good choices.
> 

Yup, sometimes you want ropes (e.g. editors may benefit), other times
you want VLists, etc. etc.