Proposal: Data.Stream

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

igloo:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:38:56PM +0200, Wouter Swierstra wrote:
> > 
> > * Hackage homepage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Stream-0.1
> > 
> > fairly uncontroversial, and would like to see it added to base (I  
> > realize that there are also proposals to clean up base to speed up  
> > the build of ghc),
> 
> Yes indeed; I don't see any reason for adding this to the base library
> while we're trying to make base smaller.
> 
> > or at least, the standard libraries.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "the standard libraries". It wouldn't be
> needed to build GHC, so it wouldn't be a GHC "core lib".
> 
> Other than that, if it's in hackage then it's as standard as any other
> library!
> 
> A "stream" (or "colist" or whatever) package seems reasonable to me.
> 
> 
> (The http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/streams/list/Data/Stream.hs
> module also looks too specific to use such a generic name, in my
> opinion).
> 

Yes, I agree. Probably if it will be the base for fusion in ndp arrays,
bytestrings and lists, we can find a tag to put between Data.* and
*.Stream.

-- Don