22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
10:56 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:51:48AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 10:37 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
Data.ByteString.Lazy defines ByteString as a type synonym, and then uses that in instances, which isn't permitted by Haskell 98. How about defining a newtype ByteString in Data.ByteString.Lazy.Base instead?
It is defined as a newtype in Data.ByteString.Lazy.Base. But that module also defines the strict variant, so within the same module they needed different names. [...] Or we could use a separate .Lazy.Base module for exposing the lower level internals of the lazy version and then not use a type alias at all.
So can we do that? What's the process?