Binary: Put -> Builder

[Henning Thielemann]

Duncan Coutts schrieb:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:34 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>> Is there a way to get the underlying Builder of a 'put' of a Binary 
>> instance?
> 
> The binary package exposes the Data.Binary.Builder module so you can use
> the Builder monoid directly. There is no need to go via the Put
> wrapper. 

I know, but the Binary class provides only a 'put' method in the 'PutM'
monad. I can wrap Put in a newtype with Monoid instance in order to get
what I want, but I hoped it would be simpler.

>> How does the Char instance of Binary serialize?
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary/0.4.4/doc/html/src/Data-Binary.html#line-486
> 
> -- Char is serialised as UTF-8
> instance Binary Char where
>   ...

Since this does not appear in the documentation, this is undocumented
behaviour? Just a Haddock deficiency, I know.