> I find that this limits considerably its usage. Can't the Bin representations
> of Char, Int, Float and Double (and maybe more) be standardized?
I think Haskell Bin stuff is braindamaged and rather useless.
I suggest we remove from Haskell until we figure out how to
do what that tries to do in a better way.
In it's place I suggest we take something like the Native class
of hbc. This class ensures that the file representation is
identical to the one you get from, e.g. C. This means that
you can actually exchange data with other programs!
It's also *very* easy to implement.
-- Lennart
While I'm not sure that Bin is all that bad an idea, I second
Lennart's motion to have a standard "Native" class. I have been using
hbc's Native class for a while now to efficiently read large binary
files produced by C programs (thank you Lennart). These files contain
long streams of floating point vectors generated by C programs I wrote
years ago and have no interest in rewriting.
david goblirsch
