[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: enumerator, an alternative iteratee package

2010-08-18 Thread Jason Dagit
Hi John, Thanks for creating a competitor to the iteratee library. I think iteratees are an important abstraction, but there are some things about the iteratee library that I'm not fond of, despite John Lato doing a great job. I think having a bit of healthy competition to explore the design spa

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: enumerator, an alternative iteratee package

2010-08-18 Thread John Millikin
Most of you have probably read Oleg's essays on using left-fold enumerators for incremental IO. In short, by encapsulating monadic left-folds in an "Iteratee" type, incremental pure processing is possible without using lazy IO. Sources to read: Oleg: Streams and Iteratees < http://okmij.org/ftp/St