> Careful. ByteString is an alternative to [Word8]. Converting [Char] to
> ByteString and back requires an encoding. (Unfortunately, the only encoding
> that comes with the bytestring package is lossy.)

Ahh, good point. I guess I almost always just use them to read ASCII,
so it hasn't been an issue.

But for numeric types, I think this wouldn't be so much of an issue,
since the format is more uniform.

Chad
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