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Nicolas Cellier

Why are zipped and unzipped implemented in String rather than ByteArray?

Because instead of just handling raw sequence of bytes, it instead handles raw sequence of bytes on Objects which are not sequence of bytes... Because we love complexity.

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Chris Muller-3

Re: Why are zipped and unzipped implemented in String rather than ByteArray?

Posisbly related to when Stream's switched from binary to text as their default type?

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Nicolas Cellier <[hidden email]> wrote:

Because instead of just handling raw sequence of bytes, it instead handles raw sequence of bytes on Objects which are not sequence of bytes... Because we love complexity.

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