Binary IO

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, John Meacham wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:38:07AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>
>> Not at all - just that we don't plan to break existing code if/when a
>> replacement for the current I/O library is introduced.  Sorry for the
>> misunderstanding.
>>
>> Does anyone have any *objections* to introducing
>>
>>   System.IO.hGetWord8 :: Handle -> IO Word8
>>   System.IO.hPutWord8 :: Word8 -> Handle -> IO Word8
>>
>> (I prefer these names, please speak up if you prefer hGetByte/hPutByte
>> instead, or something else like hGetOctet/hPutOctet).
>
> Sounds good to me. can we please also add
>
> readBinaryFile :: String -> IO [Word8]
> writeBinaryFile :: String -> [Word8] -> IO ()

me too

but of course with FilePath instead of String