Converting things to and from binary

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| There was a *long* discussion of this on the libraries list a few
months
| back.  See
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|   http://haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2002-November/000691.html
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| and the discussion that followed.
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| I think that we should
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|  (a) move this discussion to the libraries list and
|  (b) work from the point reached by those discussions

It would be great if someone took ownership of the discussion and
brought it to a conclusion, giving us all a library or libraries we
could use.  Volunteers, stand forth!

Simon