[Haskell] System.FilePath survey

[John Meacham]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 12:39:14AM +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> JM> appropriate building blocks, but their interfaces are rather austere
> JM> compared to FastPackedString, and it would nice to have all of its
> JM> options available in something not dedicated just to strings, since we
> JM> have already implemented them in any case.
> 
> so it seems logical to add these interfaces to all arrays or at least
> all unboxed arrays? this also corresponds with problem of having
> common collections interface, what is a goal of J.P. Bernardy

Yeah, the standard array classes need some reworking, we definitly need
to take another look at them if we are going to put them in the
language. If a list-like interface (as FastPackedString implements) is
useful for all of them then it would be good thing to add to a class.
(though, it would be an interface useful independently of arrays, lists
in particular :) ).

Though, independent of that whole ball of wax, the FastByteString
concrete data type would be nice to have.

        John



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