Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'text' library

Tyson Whitehead twhitehead at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 14:06:00 EDT 2010


On October 11, 2010 16:12:33 Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> The basic decision I took there was that the Char type does not exist - the
> only thing available> is Text.  Another way of saying this, is that Char is
> simply the subset of all the Texts of size 1.

I like this.  I don't know what issues it gives, but it seems quite clean.

Cheers!  -Tyson
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