[Haskell-cafe] Block-wise lazy sequences in Haskell

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:54:34PM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
>  I want to have a data structure like Data.ByteString.Lazy, that is 
> block-wise lazy, but polymorphic. I could use a lazy list of unboxed arrays 
> (UArray) but the documentation says, that the element types are restricted. 
> But I will need (strict) pairs of Double and the like as elements. It seems 
> that I need generalized instances in order to use these arrays.
>  I thought it must be possible to define an unboxed array type with 
> Storable elements. I cannot find such a type in the standard libraries. 
> Further on, I wonder why pairs are not instances of Storable.

Your request is perfectly reasonable, it just hasn't been implemented.
I started something like this a while ago; I'll see how easy it is to
finish (famous last words).

Stefan
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