[Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing binary files?

Glynn Clements glynn.clements at virgin.net
Fri Sep 17 09:53:59 EDT 2004


MR K P SCHUPKE wrote:

> >You wouldn't want to have to accumulate the
> >entire body as a single byte string
> 
> Ever heard of lazyness? Haskell does it quite well... Accumulating
> the entire body doesn't really do this because haskell is lazy. You
> don't need a more complex interface in Haskell!

Are you sure that will work in the general case? Or are you assuming
lazy I/O?

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>


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