Why are strings linked lists?

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Freitag, 28. November 2003 19:21 schrieb Hal Daume III:
> > As a matter of pure speculation, how big an impact would it have if, in
> > the next "version" of Haskell, Strings were represented as opaque types
> > with appropriate functions to convert to and from [Char]?  Would there be
> > rioting in the streets?
>
> For me, there would rather be celebration :), especially if these could be
> tuned to only use 8 bits.

What do you mean with this? Hopefully, not dropping Unicode support because 
this would be a very bad idea, IMHO.

> [...]

>  - Hal

Wolfgang