[Haskell-cafe] Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString vs Data.ByteString.Lazy.Internal.ByteString

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Fri Feb 11 05:26:22 CET 2011


ckkashyap:
>    Hi,
>    I noticed that even though I declare the type of a function in my code as 
>    Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString ... when I check it out in ghci using :t,
>    it shows this - Data.ByteString.Lazy.Internal.ByteString
>    Is this expected?

Yep, the 'Internal' module is where the type is defined, and then
re-exported through the regular module.

All is well.

-- Don



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