Re: [Haskell-cafe] Interesting folds over bytestring lists?

In message <a45dff840709191630h4e98e87em6ade4bee433f7bcf@mail.gmail.com> "Justin Bailey" <jgbailey@gmail.com> writes:

I have a data structure which is a list of bytestrings, but externally it looks like one big string.

A lazy bytestring is a list of strict bytestring which externally looks like one big string. Could you not just use a lazy bytestring and it's take and drop functions? Perhaps you can help me understand what it is you're trying to do? Duncan