<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 09:47, Don Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dons00@gmail.com">dons00@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Just as a historical note, they were intentionally left out of the original bytestring library, as it was felt it would only encourage mixing up lazy and strict bytestrings, with resulting poor and confusing performance.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I think the fact that the issue has come up demonstrates that this was the wrong solution. In particular, this design has led to a bit too much "every library chooses one and you lose or are forced to convert to a possibly inappropriate representation if you don't agree".</div>
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