Yet more text pedantry

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Fri, 09 Aug 2002 15:24:55 +0200, George Russell <ger@tzi.de> pisze:

> but the fact is that the standard access functions return
> characters*, and on Solaris the default representation of
> a characters is as a signed quantity.

Only because of a messy history. No need to transfer the silly concept
of signed and unsigned characters into Haskell, Haskell doesn't need
to sit on top of C - C is just a language.

IMHO the best way to view binary file data is Word8. Network protocols
and file formats are expressed in terms of octets, so programs which
want to cooperate with the rest of the world must be somehow able to
read/write them anyway.

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