Max Vasin wrote:
Wouldn't  it be more correct to separate binary IO, which
return [Word8] (or ByteString) and text IO which return
[Char] and deal with text encoding? IIRC that was done in
Bulat Ziganshin's streams library.

That's exactly what I meant.

Text IO could be then implemented on top of binary IO.

Would it be possible to envision a solution that enables
composition of IO low level strategies vs binary <-> text
conversion strategies?

Pao

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