Just as a historical note, they were intentionally left out of the original bytestring library, as it was felt it would only encourage mixing up lazy and strict bytestrings, with resulting poor and confusing performance.

It was intentional that you had to compose two functions to do this.

-- Don

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Gregory Collins <greg@gregorycollins.net> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:53 AM, wren ng thornton <wren@freegeek.org> wrote:

> In any case, +1 to adding these functions to the package. I don't know how
> many times I've written them by hand this way...

+1!! Same here -- I've written these functions, or their inline
equivalents, hundreds of times.

G
--
Gregory Collins <greg@gregorycollins.net>

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