[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: enumerator, an alternative iteratee package

[wren ng thornton]

John Millikin wrote:
> If you can recall the reasoning behind using ListLike or StreamChunk,
> it would be useful. Their advantages over simply using lists is not
> obvious to me.

Well, one benefit is for efficient use of ByteStrings. Because the 
StreamChunk/ListLike class allows for non-parametric containers, you can 
use the fact that ByteString is a container of Word8 without unpacking 
it into a [Word8] first. Unpacking ByteStrings is horribly inefficient 
and is almost never necessary.

As for why ListLike and StreamChunk are separate classes instead of just 
having "class StreamChunk full elem | full -> elem", ...that I don't 
know. Personally, I dislike ListLike because it has far too many methods.

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~wren