Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: I/O interface

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk writes:

Ketil Malde writes:

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It seemed to me, though, that streams are related to channels,

I'm not sure what exactly do you mean by streams (because they are only being designed), but differences are:

Sorry for being unclear, I was thinking in relation to the new-io proposal Simon M. recently posted on the lists (I put all Haskell mail in the same folder, it could have been a ghc list or haskell@).

- A stream passes around bytes, which are usually grouped in blocks for efficiency. A channel is polymorphic wrt. the element type and elements are always processed one by one.

Perhaps I'm confused, but while Stream.StreamInputStream is a stream of Word8, Text.TextInputStream provides a stream of Chars. Thanks for the explanation! -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants