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Date: | 2005-02-10 (17:58) |
From: | brogoff <brogoff@s...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] String to list to string |
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