"FastPackedString" considered harmful

[Udo Stenzel]

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> 
> I do think FastPackedString is not a suitable for a standard Haskell
> library as long as it only works on byte strings.

How about making it polymorphic then?  It could work on everything
Storable, with a bunch of specialized funktions for the common
Word8/Word16/Word32 and Char variants.


Udo.
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