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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Haskell Serialization (Daniel Fischer)
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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:41:56 +0200
From: Daniel Fischer <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Haskell Serialization
To: Stephen Tetley <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On Tuesday 11 May 2010 21:01:19, Stephen Tetley wrote:
> On 11 May 2010 19:16, Daniel Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Int8 and Word8 are unproblematic (unless you have a ones-complement
> > machine), the problems appear only for larger types, [SNIP]
>
> Hi Daniel
>
> Likely I was revealing a personal bias on that one, the only protocol
> I've implemented where Int8 has featured has been MIDI.
>
> If MIDI isn't ones-complement, my codes - I've written decoders /
> encoders several times - have been wrong for years...
I've no idea how MIDI messages/files/streams are interpreted, I was
thinking about the hardware, how the ALU interprets the bit-pattern for
arithmetic.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Stephen
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