At 2002-08-21 02:34, Simon Marlow wrote:

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I'd go for hGetWord8, hLookAheadWord8 and so on, but it's not a big deal.

Yeah you're right. Plus I got confused with lists and arrays.

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hLazyGetArray :: Handle -> IO [Word8]

Other suggestions: hGetContentsRaw, hGetWord8Contents

hGetContents is the only lazy IO function isn't it? I don't really approve of lazy IO and I was hoping to stigmatise the name with "lazy" much as the unsafe functions have "unsafe".

hGetContents, getContents, and readFile are the lazy functions. Actually I think lazy I/O is highly unsavoury myself, but I'm guessing there would be strong opposition to changing these names to include the word "lazy". Cheers, Simon