[Haskell-cafe] What's the deal with Clean?

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 5 10:34:45 EST 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:57 +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:

> Lazy bytestrings is my current favorite, since it reads bytes in an
> efficient, packed format, presents a list-like interface, and is
> chunkwise lazy, so streaming can be done in constant time.
> 
> The "build operation" part often ends up a bit gross, but I have a plan
> for that which I hope to come back to later on.

Yes, they're not good for construction atm. The Builder monoid from the
binary package is pretty good though. I've considered pulling it out and
putting it in the bytestring package.

Duncan



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