Jules Bean wrote:
As far as I'm aware, our arrays don't support any kind of zero-copy
slicing, which is what your 'drop' trick amounts to.
Zero-copy slicing would seem like an obviously nice thing to have for
IArrays, though, I agree. For various different kinds of slices
including projections.
ByteString supports zero-copy substring, but it's based on ForeignPtr
not UArray.
This is one of the many things I am often tempted to try to implement
myself...
In general, the IArray and MArray interfaces seem to be lacking a huge
number of functions which logically *should* be quite possible on an
array, they just aren't implemented. Maybe one day I'll sit down and
make a serious attempt to catelogue and implement them all...
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