Remove Data.FiniteMap, add Control.Applicative, Data.Traversable, and

[haskell-directory.git] / Data / PackedString.hs

diff --git a/Data/PackedString.hs b/Data/PackedString.hs
index 58c4981..1160d34 100644 (file)
--- a/Data/PackedString.hs
+++ b/Data/PackedString.hs
@@ -8,14 +8,20 @@
 -- Stability   :  experimental
 -- Portability :  portable
 --
--- An efficient implementation of strings.
+-- This API is deprecated.  You might be able to use "Data.ByteString"
+-- or "Data.ByteString.Char8", provided you don't need full Unicode support.
+-- The long term aim is to provide a Unicode layer on "Data.ByteString",
+-- and then to provide a replacement for this "Data.PackedString" API based on
+-- that.
 --
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 -- Original GHC implementation by Bryan O\'Sullivan, 
 -- rewritten to use UArray by Simon Marlow.
 
-module Data.PackedString (
+module Data.PackedString 
+  {-# DEPRECATED "use Data.ByteString, Data.ByteString.Char8, or plain String." #-}
+  (
        -- * The @PackedString@ type
         PackedString,      -- abstract, instances: Eq, Ord, Show, Typeable
 
@@ -266,7 +272,7 @@ joinPS filler pss = concatPS (splice pss)
   * joinPS (packString [x]) (splitPS x ls) = ls
 -}
 
--- | The 'splitPS' function splits the input string on each occurance of the given 'Char'.
+-- | The 'splitPS' function splits the input string on each occurrence of the given 'Char'.
 splitPS :: Char -> PackedString -> [PackedString]
 splitPS c = splitWithPS (== c)
 
@@ -314,7 +320,7 @@ substrPS (PS ps) begin end = packString [ ps ! i | i <- [begin..end] ]
 -- | Outputs a 'PackedString' to the specified 'Handle'.
 --
 -- NOTE: the representation of the 'PackedString' in the file is assumed to
--- be in the ISO-8859-1 encoding.  In other words, only the least signficant
+-- be in the ISO-8859-1 encoding.  In other words, only the least significant
 -- byte is taken from each character in the 'PackedString'.
 hPutPS :: Handle -> PackedString -> IO ()
 hPutPS h (PS ps) = do