FPS/Data.ByteString candidate
Donald Bruce Stewart
dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Tue Apr 25 08:34:43 EDT 2006
ross:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:08:45PM +0300, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> > The name Latin1 is particularly bad since there are many other
> > single byte encodings around.
>
> The name is quite appropriate, since that is the particular encoding of
> Char that is exposed by the interface. What's bad is that there's no
> choice. Calling it Latin1 is just being honest about that, and leaving
> room for modules with other encodings or an interface parameterized
> by encoding.
Ok. Duncan, Ketil, Ross and Simon make good points here.
I'll move Data.ByteString.Char -> Data.ByteString.Latin1
-- Don
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