It's quite old at this point, but you may be interested in reading the initial motivations for creating conduit when the iteratee pattern (and enumerator library in particular) already existed:
https://github.com/snoyberg/conduit/blob/master/README.md#general-goal I would say the only real component missing from your list is being able to structure significantly more complicated control flows, such as the use case of combining a web server and web client into a web proxy. That was probably the example which finally pushed me to start thinking seriously about an enumerator replacement. In conduit, this use case is addressed by connect-and-resume, which essentially allows you to escape the inversion of control normally introduced by the conduit pattern. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Ertugrul Söylemez <e...@ertes.de> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm trying to formulate the stream processing problem, which doesn't > seem to be solved fully by the currently existing patterns. I'm > experimenting with a new idea, but I want to make sure that I don't miss > any defining features of the problem, so here is my list. A stream > processing abstraction should: > > * have a categorically proven design (solved by iteratees, pipes), > > * be composable (solved by all of them), > > * be reasonably easy to understand and work with (solved by conduit, > pipes), > > * support leftovers (solved by conduit and to some degree by > iteratees), > > * be reliable in the presence of async exceptions (solved by conduit, > pipes-safe), > > * hold on to resources only as long as necessary (solved by conduit > and to some degree by pipes-safe), > > * ideally also allow upstream communication (solved by pipes and to > some degree by conduit). > > * be fast (solved by all of them). > > Anything else you would put in that list? > > > Greets, > Ertugrul > > -- > Not to be or to be and (not to be or to be and (not to be or to be and > (not to be or to be and ... that is the list monad. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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