On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Dan Burton <[email protected]> wrote:

> It seems that you are treating Producers like you would treat a handle. And
> indeed, with "resumable", you can upgrade any Producer to a handle-like
> Producer that retains its position across pipelines.

Yes! The Handle analogy is exactly the description I was looking for.

> But the whole advantage of the Pipes/Conduits/Iteratee abstraction over
> handles is that the composition operators abstract away this "position"
> stuff. As far as I can tell, idiomatic Pipes code typically only uses a
> producer in exactly one pipeline.

Right -- this is my feeling as well. I *can* write code using
Producers like Handles -- but is it wrong to? It sure doesn't make me
feel warm and fuzzy inside.

- jeremy

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