[Haskell-beginners] Haskell Serialization

[Ashish Agarwal]

>>     get (0::Word8)
>>     getWord8be 0
>
> Make that
>
> put (0 :: Word16)
> putWord16be 0
>
> ?

Yes, thanks for the correction. Word8 was a bad choice since endianness is
not an issue.

Thanks for all the advice. It seems I should avoid making my types instances
of Binary. In fact, this relates to another design issue I've been grappling
with, supporting multiple versions of the protocol. Probably I'll need
something like, putProtVersion1, putProtVersion2, etc. Or something along
this line.




On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de>wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 21:01:19, Stephen Tetley wrote:
> > On 11 May 2010 19:16, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de> wrote:
> > > Int8 and Word8 are unproblematic (unless you have a ones-complement
> > > machine), the problems appear only for larger types, [SNIP]
> >
> > Hi Daniel
> >
> > Likely I was revealing a personal bias on that one, the only protocol
> > I've implemented where Int8 has featured has been MIDI.
> >
> > If MIDI isn't ones-complement, my codes - I've written decoders /
> > encoders several times - have been wrong for years...
>
> I've no idea how MIDI messages/files/streams are interpreted, I was
> thinking about the hardware, how the ALU interprets the bit-pattern for
> arithmetic.
>
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Stephen
>
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