Thinking about what's missing in our library coverage

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> >   * keep an eye on text.  We certainly want it, but it's
> >     a young package and there's no text I/O yet.
>
> I'd say go for it. If the current API is good then that's enough. It's
> not clear that there needs to be separate I/O modules for it. I might
> suggest hiding all the fusion modules for starter though.
>

It's really not ready for prime time yet. I'm making changes to the API at
the moment, but they're not complete, and I want to see what the new
localised I/O support in 6.12 looks like to figure out whether I can hook
into that in an agreeable fashion to get localised I/O without jumping
through too many hoops. I'm even contemplating trimming the naming from
Data.Text to Text, as part of my little war on meaningless module prefixes
:-)  So please, don't go for it just yet. Pitch in with patches instead!

Regards,
Bryan.
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