[Haskell-cafe] Re: instance Eq (a -> b)

[Edward Kmett]

Because it is the most utilitarian way to get a bunch of strict ByteStrings
out of a lazy one.

Yes it exposes an implementation detail, but the alternatives involve an
unnatural amount of copying.

-Edward Kmett

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org> wrote:

> Ketil Malde wrote:
>
>> Do we also want to modify equality for lazy bytestrings, where equality
>> is currently independent of chunk segmentation?  (I.e.
>>
>>  toChunks s1 == toChunks s2 ==> s1 == s2
>> but not vice versa.)
>>
>
> Why is toChunks exposed?
>
> --
> Ashley Yakeley
>
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