Re: [Haskell-cafe] What's the deal with Clean?

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:57 +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:

Lazy bytestrings is my current favorite, since it reads bytes in an efficient, packed format, presents a list-like interface, and is chunkwise lazy, so streaming can be done in constant time.

The "build operation" part often ends up a bit gross, but I have a plan for that which I hope to come back to later on.

Yes, they're not good for construction atm. The Builder monoid from the binary package is pretty good though. I've considered pulling it out and putting it in the bytestring package. Duncan