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

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

ross:
> 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.

For the syntax, and So that people can directly port their code from NewBinary.
(The instances are basically unchanged).

    newtype PutM a = Put { unPut :: (a, Builder) }
    type Put = PutM ()

It is always ().

-- Don