Data.ByteString should export toStrict/fromStrict

[tomjaguarpaw]

Data.ByteString.Lazy export toStrict/fromStrict but Data.ByteString doesn't. Why not?

[Ignat Insarov]

Because Data.ByteString.Lazy imports Data.ByteString and importing also the other way around will make imports cyclic. There is a provision for cyclic imports in GHC, so in principle it is possible to fix this issue.

[tomjaguarpaw]

I suspect the definitions should be in Internal modules, and the external API modules just re-export things from there.

[ˌbodʲɪˈɡrʲim]

This is fixed: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-0.11.4.0/docs/Data-ByteString.html#v:fromStrict

[tomjaguarpaw]

Great, thanks!