[Haskell-cafe] Patterns for processing large but finite streams

Hi, I'm rewriting timeplot to avoid holding the whole input in memory, and naturally a problem arises: How to represent large but finite streams and functions that process them, returning other streams or some kinds of aggregate values? Examples: * Adjacent differences of a stream of numbers * Given a stream of numbers with times, split it into buckets by time of given width and produce a stream of (bucket, 50%,75% and 90% quantiles in this bucket) * Sum a stream of numbers Is this, perhaps, what comonads are for? Or iteratees? -- Eugene Kirpichov Principal Engineer, Mirantis Inc. http://www.mirantis.com/ Editor, http://fprog.ru/