Proposal: simplify encoding of numbers in bytestring

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

"Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos at serpentine.com> writes:

[...]

> 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.

+1

> (Really, the *Hex functions need the same treatment, but they're less of a
> priority to me.)

(please let's treat them in one go together with the '*Dec')