Re: Unsafe aspects of ByteString

Hello, I think that your proposal is reasonable. By the way there is also another option. The main point of packCString is to "convert" a CString to byte string, presumably so that we can use the byte string operations on it. An alternative would be to provide the byte string operations directly on CStrings (perhaps with overloading, perhaps not). Then we would not need packCString, and then when working with ByteStrings we would know that they are safe, but when we work with CStrings, we would have to watch out, as usual. Just a thought. -Iavor