[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: FPS - FastPackedStrings 0.2

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Thu Apr 20 16:05:23 EDT 2006


John Meacham wrote:

>>Confusion of Char and Word8 is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.
> 
> 
> It is a huge pet peeve of mine too.
> 
> perhaps this library should be renamed 'FastByteArray' instead? which is
> a very useful datatype too.

I agree. I would rename it and also use solely Word8-based functions.

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