23 Dec
2008
23 Dec
'08
9:18 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 04:06:38PM +0100, wman wrote:
Thank you, guys, i somehow got the impression that there has to be some meaning to this. It seemed unprobable, but why would anybody write it like that if there weren't some reason to it ? ;-)))
My guess is that it was probably to gain compatability between different ByteString versions. In older versions, the lazy byte string was just a newtype around a list of bytestrings so you didn't have 'toChunks'. A hack to get around another hack (CPP). John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈