[ccan] Add new 'bytestring' module

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue May 22 10:18:53 EST 2012


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 01:07:19PM -0400, Joey Adams wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:02 AM, David Gibson
> <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sold on the bytestring name either, but I haven't
> > come up with a better one.
> 
> Looks like the name was stolen from Haskell's ByteString library [1].
> As a Haskell programmer, I'm happy with the name.

Uh, no.  Much as I like Haskell, it's not where I took the name.

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