If you mean a Text-like representation (basically ropes of codepoints) then sure, but Data.Text has a bunch of i/o including lazy i/o stirred in with it. Lazy

If you mean a Text-like representation (basically ropes of codepoints) then sure, but Data.Text has a bunch of i/o including lazy i/o stirred in with it. Lazy i/o in particular is part of the still-lingering schizophrenia in Haskell about how to do i/o cleanly and safely. The current Streaming library is yet another try at that. I hadn't seen it before and it looks interesting, though I'll have to examine it more closely, and it still seems to be Iteratees deep down. I had the impression a few years ago that Pipes was the most cleanly designed of these schemes, but haven't been keeping track.