On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Erik,


On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
Since the files are large I'm using ByteString, but that leads me
to wonder what is the best way to handle clashes between Prelude
functions like putStrLn and the ByteString versions?

Anyone have any suggestions for doing this as neatly as possible?

Use qualified imports, like so:

import qualified Data.ByteString as B
 
main = B.putStrLn $ B.pack "test"

If you want to pack a String into a ByteString, you'll need to import Data.ByteString.Char8 instead.

Michael