The Problem

Working with binary I/O often requires imperative-style interop. Testing binary I/O, interactively or non-, is made harder by the lack of a literal representations for byte streams.

How can we represent an ordered, possibly infinite, collection of bytes?

Desiderata

Ideally, this representation would be:

• pr/read-able
• representable as a string in a specific encoding
• compatible with Clojure's sequence API
• efficient for streaming I/O of large binary objects
• lazy, i.e., the entire collection need not exist in memory at one time
• compatible with java.io and java.nio interfaces