Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It seemed to me, though, that streams are related to channels, > I'm not sure what exactly do you mean by streams (because they are > only being designed), but differences are: Sorry for being unclear, I was thinking in relation to the new-io proposal Simon M. recently posted on the lists (I put all Haskell mail in the same folder, it could have been a ghc list or haskell@). > - A stream passes around bytes, which are usually grouped in blocks > for efficiency. A channel is polymorphic wrt. the element type and > elements are always processed one by one. Perhaps I'm confused, but while Stream.StreamInputStream is a stream of Word8, Text.TextInputStream provides a stream of Chars. Thanks for the explanation! -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
