[Haskell-cafe] question about Data.Binary and Double instance

[Jules Bean]

Duncan Coutts wrote:
> Yeah, we've concentrated so far on the serialisation of Haskell values,
> not reading/writing externally defined binary formats. I don't think
> we've been especially clear on that. But we do intend to tackle both.
>
>   


Speaking for myself, I certainly didn't realise you were intending to 
solve these two different problems. Serialisation and binary data access 
are clearly quite different issues (though it makes sense for the one to 
layer on the other). Perhaps you should (a) be clearer in your 
propaganda and (b) give the two parts different names?

Jules