On 2007-09-13, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In any case, we already have hGetBuf / hPutBuf in the standard base
> libaries for raw binary IO, so code that uses getChar for bytes really
> has no excuse.
Except, of course, that hGetBuf and hPutBuf are
(a) allocating the memory for the buffers is a pain (does it require the
FFI?)
(b) are something of a pain to use, requiring explicitly managing what's
valid in these buffers (though a wrapper only need be written once)
(c) while in the "standard base libraries" are not in the report or
library report. i.e. there's no guarantee that a conforming Haskell
implementation will have them. It'd be silly for an implementation to
not support them, of course, but...
The ByteString library at least fixes (a) and (b).
--
Aaron Denney
-><-
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