23 May
2011
23 May
'11
6:08 a.m.
I'm warming up to the same underlying type approach. Unfortunately, it's not fully general (for example, you couldn't use this to manage lazy/strict bytestrings) but I could see this spreading to other libraries (e.g. transformers) Edward Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of Sun May 22 07:04:20 -0400 2011:
Unsure, ask again in a few days.
Benefits for encoding at the data type level:
1. You'll never "forget" to add an appropriate `seq`, so the code looks essentially the same in the lazy and strict cases.
2. It's true that converting between lazy and strict maps can be something of a pain. However, I suspect that it is good discipline to know what strictness your map is (I may be wrong here.)
Cheers, Edward