[Haskell-cafe] Re: Fwd: Semantics of iteratees, enumerators, enumeratees?

[Heinrich Apfelmus]

Daniel Fischer wrote:
> John Lato wrote:
>>> Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you have an example where you want chunking instead of single
>>> character access?
>>
>> I am unable to think of any examples where you want chunking for any
>> reason other than efficiency.
> 
> For many hashing or de/encryption algorithms, chunking is more natural than 
> single-character access.

Even when the chunk lengths are unpredictable? After all, unlike with 
fread  in C, you can't request the next chunk to have a certain length 
with Iteratees.


Regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus

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