Word8-Based IO

[Ashley Yakeley]

At 2002-08-21 02:34, Simon Marlow wrote:

>I'd go for hGetWord8, hLookAheadWord8 and so on, but it's not a big
>deal.

Yeah you're right. Plus I got confused with lists and arrays.

>>   hLazyGetArray :: Handle -> IO [Word8]
>
>Other suggestions: hGetContentsRaw, hGetWord8Contents

hGetContents is the only lazy IO function isn't it? I don't really 
approve of lazy IO and I was hoping to stigmatise the name with "lazy" 
much as the unsafe functions have "unsafe".

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA