[Haskell-cafe] Endian conversion

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On 10/3/05, Joel Reymont <joelr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Are there any endian conversion routines for Haskell? I'm looking to
> build binary packets on top of NewBinary.Binary but my data is coming
> in little-endian whereas I'll need to send it out big endian.


>From your question I assume you want functions like htonl / ntohl.
I think the cleanest approach is to always have yours Ints, etc in host
order, and place
the endianness stuff in serialization / deserialization code, ie. on the
Number <-> Byte
sequence boundary.

Having htonl/ntohl as pure functions in Haskell would be a bit ugly, because
they would be defined differently on different platforms, and putting them
in the
IO monad would make them barely usable.

Best regards
Tomasz
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