binary files in haskell

[malcolm-haskell@cs.york.ac.uk]

John Meacham wrote:
> I wrote up a proposal for a binary file IO mechanism to be added
> as a 'blessed addendum' to the standard at best and as a commonly
> implmented extension (in hslibs) at least..

I have looked at your proposal.  If you would like it to be widely
available, you will need to write an implementation of the library,
or find someone who can write it for you.  Type signatures are great
as documentation, but they are not directly executable.  :-)

Regards,
    Malcolm