[Haskell-cafe] castIOUArray and hPutArray redux

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Fri May 2 21:16:32 EDT 2008


midfield:
> hi haskellers,
> 
> have the issues with castIOUArray (and thus hGetArray, hPutArray) in
> Data.Array.IO discussed below been resolved?
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2003-January/thread.html
> 
> here is a (trivial) program which has rather unexpected behavior.
> (i'm switching to Data.Binary in the meantime.)

Could you clarify what benefit the low level direct array IO has over Data.Binary?

-- Don (thinking about how to best do IO for a new arrays library)


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