matthew-mosior/text-compression

text-compression

text-compression's Issues

Any strategies for rendering the compression result?

I have looked over this package briefly, and I am wondering how you could take the result of, say, textToBWTToRLET :: Text -> RLET and convert it to a string in such a way that it can be uniquely converted back to an RLET, so it could then be decompressed? I read over some general RLE papers and they seem to always use examples that have no digits.

Merge ByteString and Text functions and types

In order to eliminate duplicate code, all the ByteString and Text specific functions are merged into functions that have a type parameter b with the constraints forall b. (Pack b) =>. The forall, along with {-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}, lets you use b in signatures throughout the function to refer to the exact type used in the main signature. Remove the B and T suffixes from all functions and types. You may also need {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}.