Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: vector-bytestring-0.0.0.0

Am 17.10.2011 17:26, schrieb Bas van Dijk:

On 17 October 2011 13:12, Christian Maeder wrote:

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So your package basically supports an unfortunate mix of bytestring and vector functions?

No, vector-bytestring exports the same API as bytestring (except for the Show and Read instances which will hopefully be fixed in a new vector release).

Yes, but Data.Vector.Storable can be simple imported and used in addition. I suppose, the (derived) Data instances (from vector and the original bytestrings) break the abstraction. (So you must hope nobody is relying on this instance.)

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How about proposing a better bytestring interface (if it should not just be that of vector)?

I'm all for improving the interface but the goal of vector-bytestring is that it can be used as a drop-in replacement for bytestring without changing to much code.

Changing back to another drop-in replacement for bytestring will be difficult if functions from Data.Vector.Storable have been used. Thanks Christian

Regards,

Bas