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From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@k...>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Newbe question: Strings <-> char lists 
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.

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