[Haskell-cafe] [web-devel] [ANNOUNCE] First release of crypto-conduit

[Vincent Hanquez]

On 01/08/2012 04:12 AM, Aristid Breitkreuz wrote:
> Why? I don't actually need the hash object for anything, usually. All
> I need is the ByteString, and then I need to learn how to use the
> cereal package to get it...
The whole rationale i believe, is having meaningful types associated to your 
values so that the type checker can do its job. i.e. you don't start mixing a 
hash (in binary form) and a random piece of file.

My only problem with the Serialize instance, is that dependencies (cereal in 
this case) trickle through to the user of the API, which would be solved by 
Thomas' suggestion.

-- 
Vincent