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Re:What Is IO Monad? (2018) [video] by misja111 on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:11AM (#30624439)
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.

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Re:What Is IO Monad? (2018) [video] by stingraycharles on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:38AM (#30624630)
It’s been a while since I worked with Haskell. What’s the issue with Strings, I’m guessing it must be Unicode-related?
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Re:What Is IO Monad? (2018) [video] by mylvinta on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:46AM (#30624668)
Strings are linked lists of characters, so they perform quite badly
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