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

[Stefan Karrmann]

Dear Donald!

Donald Bruce Stewart (Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:51:01PM +1100):
>         Binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation for Haskell
>      ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
[..]
> Encoding and decoding are achieved by the functions:
> 
>     encode :: Binary a => a -> ByteString
>     decode :: Binary a => ByteString -> a
> 
> which mirror the read/show functions. Convenience functions for serialising to
> disk are also provided:

How can you detect that a decode fails? Do you need to catch an error in the
IO monad?

How can you know that there is remaining input in the ByteString?

Regards,
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