"FastPackedString" considered harmful

[Jean-Philippe Bernardy]

How about ByteSequence ?

This is inline with Ross' Data.Sequence and Data.IntMap.

Cheers,
JP.

On 4/20/06, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>
> On the topic of a good name for FPS, I think its fairly widely
> considered that a packed byte "string" shouldn't be considered a String,
> and thus FastPackedString is a potentially confusing misnomer.
> It was always meant as a working title until something replaced
> Data.PackedString anyway.
>
> If this library is to be imported into the base libraries, along with
> future PackedString.Unicode and so on, layers on top, we should probably
> get the name right now.
>
> I'm disinclined to call it a ByteArray module -- it doesn't really offer
> array-like operations. And its got nothing much to do with the other
> Array.* stuff.
>
> Instead, how about: Data.ByteString  (with a connotation of IntMap) ?
>
> That seems to suggest both the stringy-ness of the api, but also the
> restriction to bytes.
>
> -- Don
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