Re: [Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

zednenem:

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On 7/15/07, Derek Elkins wrote:

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There is no version of bytestrings without stream fusion and there never was. Bytestrings have no compiler support, it is just a library.

I'm not sure that's correct. Stream fusion is a particular fusion technique that wasn't introduced until fairly recently.

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From what I can tell, none of the versions available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps.html include it. You have to go to http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/CSL06.html and get the code from the fps-unstable branch.

That's right. Both stream fusion for lists and bytestrings are currently only in darcs,

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/fps-unstable/ http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/streams/list/

Bytestrings will be streamed by the next release.

...which brings me back to my original "how do I know if it's there?" question. ;-) My copy of GHC sitting here certainly *has* support for lists and byte strings in it - but I have no clue what version...