Text in Haskell: A PROPOSAL

[Ketil Z. Malde]

Ken Shan <ken@digitas.harvard.edu> writes:

> One thing I am concerned about is that getChar should be IO CChar, not
> IO Char. 

Why?  Why not a separate getWord8 that is IO Word8 instead?

At least in my code, I mostly use textual IO, so when I say getChar, I
usually mean get a Char, not a Word8.  Other people's code probably
differs, so I guess it is a question of what will break the least
code. 

But I also think the name of the function shouldn't be ignored.

-kzm
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