Proposal: simplify encoding of numbers in bytestring

[Johan Tibell]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> The bytestring builder API has a large number of entry points for encoding
> numbers:
>
>       int8Dec
>     , int16Dec
>     , int32Dec
>     , int64Dec
>     , intDec
>     , integerDec
>
>     , word8Dec
>     , word16Dec
>     , word32Dec
>     , word64Dec
>     , wordDec
>
> Contrast this with the text library:
>
>     decimal :: Integral a => a -> Builder
>
> I want to deprecate the 11 *Dec functions in favour of the same
> single-entry-point API used by text: it's way simpler, and no less
> efficient.

Sounds good to me.