Took me a minute or two! Technically these are both string coercion?
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
-
No, in Haskell strings are represented as lists of characters. This was cute at the time it was designed, but horrible in the current world of Unicode. Also terrible for performance. Thankfully you can now use a better representation via the Text package.
5 replies 2 retweets 37 likes -
Replying to @brendanzab @glenathan and
Do you still have to enable OverloadedStrings to make string literals not terrible?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
-
Replying to @brendanzab @glenathan and
Dang, it's been 11 years. You'd think by now it'd just be default
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sgrif @glenathan and
Yeah. I really love the approach of 'simple core' then 'let a thousand extensions bloom', but they've waited long enough to turn on some of them by default...
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Oh I definitely agree with that approach overall, but this is one of the few cases that I'd figure has baked for long enough and is clearly needed
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.