On 2006-02-06, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I have developed a new I/O library that IMHO is so sharp that it can > eventually replace the current I/O facilities based on using Handles. > The main advantage of the new library is its strong modular design > using typeclasses. The library consists of small independent modules, > each implementing one type of stream (file, memory buffer, pipe) or > one part of common stream functionality (buffering, Char encoding, > locking). 3rd-party libs can easily add new stream types and new > common functionality. Other benefits of the new library include > support for streams functioning in any monad, Hugs and GHC > compatibility, high speed and an easy migration path from the existing > I/O library. > > You can find further information about the library at the page > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/Streams and download it as > http://freearc.narod.ru/Streams.tar.gz > > I thank Jean Philippe Bernardy, Jared Updike and Henk Jan Van Tuyl, > who are corrected library documentation > > ps: the library also includes two more layers - binary I/O and > serialization - on top of Streams. now i'm hardly working on > documenting these modules
Disclaimer: I haven't looked at the code yet. Having binary I/O on top seems backwards. Clearly text should be implemented in terms of binary, rather than the reverse. -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
