[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Implement gzReadFile (and 19 more)

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 07:44:28AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
> > We might be better off building sorted slurpies when we need them. Then
> > whatsnew wouldn't need to bother. Hmm, except we still need to cope with
> > files missing in the co slurpy.
> 
> Indeed, it seems to me that if where were an appropriately lazy sort of
> FiniteMap (or Data.Map, or whatever), then that would really be ideal.

How much laziness do we need in Slurpy? Wouldn't it suffice for Map
values to be non-strict?

BTW, I was going to try using Data.Map in Slurpy some day. I introduced
get_slurp_context* functions to make the transition easier. I can work
on this now.

Best regards
Tomasz