From: brogoff <brogoff@speakeasy.net>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] String to list to string
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:58:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502100951080.19029@shell3.speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420ac293.30127b31.1fa8.0b02@smtp.gmail.com>
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, [iso-8859-1] Juancarlo Añez wrote:
> Why aren't there functions in the standard library to convert strings to
> lists of characters and back?
Because it's a bad idea. This has been discussed numerous times in this
mailing list, and if the mailing list search engine actually worked (like it
used to a few years ago) I'd tell you to search the archives.
> Haskell treats strings as lists of chars by default.
Just goes to show you that even really smart people can do some amazingly dumb
things.
Take a look at the SML Basis Library substrings for a smarter functional
approach to this issue.
-- Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-10 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-07 2:24 Fwd: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking Jon Harrop
2005-02-07 2:55 ` skaller
2005-02-10 2:10 ` String to list to string Juancarlo Añez
2005-02-10 2:27 ` [Caml-list] " William D.Neumann
2005-02-10 3:24 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-02-10 6:31 ` Radu Grigore
2005-02-10 6:52 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-02-10 3:41 ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-15 1:16 ` Aaron Bohannon
2005-02-15 10:33 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-15 13:34 ` Eric C. Cooper
2005-02-10 10:09 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-10 19:19 ` Juancarlo Añez
[not found] ` <E1CzJqb-00031c-00@furbychan.cocan.org>
2005-02-10 19:41 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-10 17:58 ` brogoff [this message]
2005-02-10 18:35 Harrison, John R
2005-02-10 19:28 ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-11 1:22 ` skaller
2005-02-11 2:05 ` John Prevost
2005-02-10 19:32 ` brogoff
2005-02-10 19:51 Harrison, John R
2005-02-10 21:18 Harrison, John R
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