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Major performance optimization achieved by getting rid of the "length" function. Since this was an unavoidable breaking change, other breaking changes were added as well.

Major redesign done to declutter the API from experimental features, dropping some and isolating others to "text-builder-dev" to reduce the need for further major releases of this library down the road. Order brought to naming conventions of the formatter-functions.

Breaking changes and migration instructions

• Text.Builder module renamed to TextBuilder to fully conform to the convention of having the root namespace of the library map to its name.
• Builder type was renamed to TextBuilder.
• run renamed to toText.
• length removed to increase performance of the whole abstraction.
• null renamed to isEmpty to leave declarative naming only for constructor-functions.
• putToStdOut, putToStdErr, putLnToStdOut, putLnToStdErr removed to reduce the bloat of the API. Just use similar functions on Text.
• padFromLeft and padFromRight moved to "text-builder-dev-0.4".
• asciiByteString renamed to unsafeUtf8ByteString. ASCII is a subset of UTF-8 and the previous implementation was unsafe any way.
• hexData moved to "text-builder-dev-0.4" as byteStringHexEncoding.
• unicodeCodePoint renamed to unicodeCodepoint.
• utf16CodeUnits1, utf16CodeUnits2, utf8CodeUnits1, utf8CodeUnits2, utf8CodeUnits3, utf8CodeUnits4 moved to "text-builder-core-0.1" and removed from the public API to reduce the bloat. Nobody seems to have been using them. If you need them, open a ticket in "text-builder-core".
• unsignedDecimal - removed because it was unsafe. Use decimal.
• thousandSeparatedUnsignedDecimal - removed because it was unsafe. Use thousandSeparatedDecimal.
• dataSizeInBytesInDecimal moved to "text-builder-dev-0.4" as approximateDataSize.
• unsignedBinary and unsignedPaddedBinary replaced with binary, which is now safe and handles negative values.
• hexadecimal and unsignedHexadecimal replaced with hexadecimal, which is now safe and handles negative values.
• decimalDigit and hexadecimalDigit removed. Seemed to not be useful. If you think otherwise open a ticket.
• fixedDouble moved to "text-builder-dev-0.4" as doubleFixedPoint. It does not have an efficient implementation yet is based on printf.
• doublePercent moved to "text-builder-dev-0.4" as doubleFixedPointPercent. Same reasons.
• intervalInSeconds moved to "text-builder-dev-0.4" as diffTimeSeconds and picoseconds.

Non-breaking

• unicodeCodepoint is now safe. It replaces invalid codepoints with a default one.
• char is now safe for the same reasons.

0.6.8

• Migrated to the namespacing convention where the root namespace matches the package name 1-1 with no special cases. The support for previous naming convention is still provided though.