Hi
Or we could stop exporting the internal bytestring APIs at all.
The ability to monkey around in the internals of bytestrings is very handy, so it would be a shame to do that.
Yes, I wasn't really being serious. We do deliberately export it all so people can build extensions, and there are already several such extensions. Of course we don't make the same api stability promises about the stuff in the .Base module.
Base is a bit too friendly a name, I would have expected Internal somewhere in the name if this library really is internal and has no guarantees. Plus there is no way for a library user to know that this Base thing is less stable than the rest of the base library, without going as far as the documentation - which I certainly didn't do. Thanks Neil