[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation

[Ross Paterson]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:51:01PM +1100, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> 
>         Binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation for Haskell
>      ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> The Binary Strike Team is pleased to announce the release of a new,
> pure, efficient binary serialisation library for Haskell, now available
> from Hackage:
>     
>  tarball:    http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary/0.2
>  darcs:      darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/binary
>  haddocks:   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary/Data-Binary.html

Remind me again: why do you need a Put monad, which always seems to have
the argument type ()?  Monoids really are underappreciated.