On Monday 10 September 2007 18:21, Thomas Schilling wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 18:11 +0200, Sven Panne wrote:
> [...]
> > The library looks quite nice, but I'm missing support for reading/writing
> > Int{8,16,32,64}
>
> maybe this?
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary/0.3/doc/html/Data-Binary
>-Get.html#v%3AgetWord8Of course I can *implement* everything on top of this, but this is not the point. The binary library should have builtin support for more data types, and this is probably not hard to implement. > Also note that many Haskell standard types are instances of the Binary > class. I might have misunderstood what you're asking for, though... Again a confusion of the 2 things the binary package offers (I was confused initially as well): The Binary class is totally useless for reading/writing existing formats, simply because that's not its task. To read/write an existing format (BMP, MP3, WAV, Quake BSP, etc.) you have to use the getFoo/readFoo functions. So what I was asking for is: getInt32be, putIEEEFloatLe, getIEEEDoubleHost, ... Type classes might be used to get a slightly smaller API, but I am unsure about the performance impact and how much this would really buy us in terms of the ease of use of the API. Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
