[Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary Endianness

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Mon Sep 10 14:55:57 EDT 2007


Don Stewart wrote:
> sven.panne:
>   
>> Of course I can *implement* everything on top of this, but this is 
>> not the
>> point. The binary library should have builtin support for more data types, 
>> and this is probably not hard to implement.
>>     
>
> Yeah, just send patches against the darcs repo for either Binary instances for more 
> basic types, or primops if necessary (e.g. for Float)
>   

Ah, the famous "open source process" we all hear so much hype about... 
This is probably the first time I've actually seen it in action though. 
Refreshing. :-)




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