FW: First Attempt at Crypto Library

[Martin Sjögren]

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ons 2003-04-23 klockan 10.52 skrev Simon Marlow:
> That's a good point.  Unless anyone objects, let's reserve Codec.Text
> for the text encodings (UTF-8 and so on).

Definitely.

> The options for Base64 and friends are therefore: Codec.Binary.Base64,
> Codec.Base64, or Codec.General.Base64.  Or even
> Codec.BinaryToText.Base64?  None stands out as the obvious choice to me,
> but we could defer the decision until the library actually exists ;-)

Never do today, what you can put off until tomorrow, eh? :) I think
"Binary" is a bad name. What does it mean anyway? I don't think it adds
any information to have Codec.Binary.Base64 rather than Codec.Base64.
What other interesting encodings would you put in Codec.Binary?


/Martin
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Martin Sj=F6gren
  sjogren@debian.org -- marvin@dum.chalmers.se
  GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html
  let hello =3D "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello)

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