[Haskell-beginners] problem with lazy IO

[Daniel Fischer]

On Thursday 10 November 2011, 00:48:20, Dennis Raddle wrote:
> It was a pain putting "map (chr . fromIntegral)" in front of everything
> to get regular strings.

import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as C

  foo <- C.unpack `fmap` C.readFile whichever

You don't need to put it *everywhere*