[Haskell-cafe] Text and ByteString safety (was Naming scheme for partial functions)

I'm still a little new to Haskell. Could someone explain how Text and ByteString "push the boundaries of 'unsafe'"? On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Antoine Latter wrote:

Yeah, that's a good point.Text and Bytestring (and other similar packages) have been pushing the boundaries of 'unsafe' and are in wide use.