[Haskell-beginners] show vs. Data.ByteString.Char8.unpack for ByteString

[Stephen Blackheath [to Haskell-Beginners]]

Hong,

'show' of a ByteString will put quotes around the text and lots of \ for
escaping certain characters, whereas unpack will translate each byte
one-to-one to a Char.


Steve

Hong Yang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the difference between show and unpack when the function
> arguments are of ByteString type? I thought they are the same, but they
> are not interchangeable at compile time.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hong
> 
> 
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