[Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary and little endian encoding

[Don Stewart]

leimy2k:
> I actually need little endian encoding... wondering if anyone else hit this
> with Data.Binary. (because I'm working with Bell Lab's 9P protocol which does
> encode things on the network in little-endian order).
> 
> Anyone got some "tricks" for this?

Yes!
There are big, little and host-endian primitives in the Get/Put monads.

    http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary/0.5.0.1/doc/html/Data-Binary-Put.html#v%3AputWord16le

You can use these to build encoders directly.

Cheers,
  Don