On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Neil Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > == The Question == > > Is there a simple way of tagging fields in a constructor as deferred, > just once for reading and writing, and ideally outside the instance > definition and not requiring additional code to unwrap? I can't think > of any, but there may be something I have missed.
Is there any reason not to just write all lazy fields of variable size in a deferred manner? That would seem like the best option to me, but maybe that's just because I don't see any downside besides the requirement that one use some space to write the size. But that seems like it would almost always be a trivial issue, as any small data element will have a fixed size (so that the deferred/non-deferred distinction doesn't exist). David _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
