On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 09:07 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > marlowsd: > > On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com > >> <mailto:d...@galois.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 > >> > >> New capabilities: > >> * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ? > >> > >> > >> Why both? Their parallel existence and purpose is already confusing, > >> without blessing the two :-) > > > > Right, if there are are two competing libraries and it's not clear which > > one is best, that's a sign that we shouldn't put either in the platform > > until the differences are resolved. Fight it out and get back to us > > when you have an answer :-) > > > > They're complimentary. Sometimes you need parsing of streams, sometimes > you need synchronous parsing of strict packets.
We can do both with one package once we have the right primitives. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
