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From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Newbe question: Strings <-> char lists
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:55:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6pg5e4z.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502101919.j1AJJcWC011340@concorde.inria.fr> (Juancarlo =?iso-8859-15?q?A=F1ez's?= message of "Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:19:13 -0400")

Juancarlo Añez <juanca@suigeneris.org> writes:

>  | As far as I now, Haskell actually implements strings as 
>  | lists of characters, 
>
> I'm pretty sure that Haskell lets you *treat* strings as list of
> characters, yet provides an efficient implementation of strings
> underneath.

No, it's really a lazy list of characters underneath. There are
non-standard extensions, packed strings, but they a separate type.

-- 
   __("<         Marcin Kowalczyk
   \__/       qrczak@knm.org.pl
    ^^     http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-10 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-10 16:22 jabbr Paul Argentoff
2005-02-10 17:18 ` Newbe question: Strings <-> char lists Juancarlo Añez
2005-02-10 17:36   ` [Caml-list] " Alex Baretta
2005-02-10 19:19     ` Juancarlo Añez
2005-02-10 20:55       ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [this message]
2005-02-10 17:48   ` Olivier Andrieu

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