[Haskell-cafe] two problems with Data.Binary and Data.ByteString

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Wed Aug 13 03:06:44 EDT 2008


ketil:
> Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> writes:
> 
> >> You really, really want to be using rnf for this job, instead of
> >> turning your brain into a pretzel shape.
> 
> > The Pretzel being one of the lesser-known lazy, cyclic, functional data structures.
> 
> So "pretzel-brain" is actually a honorific, rather than derogative term?
> /me makes mental note.

Yes, bestowed upon those who've read Okasaki, and can tie-the-knot.

-- Don


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