On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Donn Cave <d...@avvanta.com> wrote: > I wonder how many ByteString users are `working with bytes', in the > sense you apparently mean where the bytes are not text characters. > My impression is that in practice, there is a sizeable contingent > out here using ByteString.Char8 and relatively few applications for > the Word8 type. Some of it should no doubt move to Text, but the > ability to work with native packed data - minimal processing and > space requirements, interoperability with foreign code, mmap, etc. - > is attractive enough that the choice can be less than obvious.
Using ByteString.Char8 doesn't mean your data isn't a stream of bytes, it means that it is a stream of bytes but for convenience you prefer using Char8 functions. For example, a DNA sequence (AATCGATACATG...) is a stream of bytes, but it is better to write 'A' than 65. But yes, many users of ByteStrings should be using Text. =) Cheers! -- Felipe. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
