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Huh, Data.Text has been around forever. And the datatype that you will find in almost any Haskell tutorial is still 'String'. It is really a pain that any begi
by misja111 5y ago
Huh, Data.Text has been around forever. And the datatype that you will find in almost any Haskell tutorial is still 'String'.
It is really a pain that any beginner in the Haskell language is learning what seems the obvious datatype for strings, i.e. String, and later has to unlearn that again.
- stingraycharles 5y agoIt’s been a while since I worked with Haskell. What’s the issue with Strings, I’m guessing it must be Unicode-related?
- mylvinta 5y agoStrings are linked lists of characters, so they perform quite badly