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

[Andrew Coppin]

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> See also the older NewBinary, 
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/NewBinary-0.1
>   

Now that's just ironic...


Incidentally, I've been thinking. You *might* want the binary 
representation of things if you were going to, say, compress or encrypt 
data before putting it into a file or whatever. Actually in Java 
(bleeeh) you can wrap things around a stream so that data gets 
compressed and transformed between where the program writes it, and 
where it hits the endpoint. Haskell doesn't have a library for this, and 
I don't immediately see how to implement one. It would be darn useful to 
have a standard setup for this though. That way, when somebody wants to 
implement a new way to do zlib compression or a SHA-256 implementation 
or... there will already be a standardised way to access the binary 
representation of data without having to write it to a file.

(If any of that made sense...)?)