[Haskell-cafe] Just for a laugh...

[Jules Bean]

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
>     > let s = encode (1.1 :: Float)
>     > :t s
>     s :: Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString
>     > s
>     LPS ["\NUL\NUL\140\204\205\255\255\255\255\255\255\255\233"]
> 
>     > decode s :: Float
>     1.1

But doesn't Data.Binary serialise to a guaranteed representation, i.e. 
machine-independent? Whereas this (stupid) question explicitly asked for 
*your particular hardware's* floating point rep.

Jules