Re: Binary files in Haskell

[Simon L Peyton Jones]

> I would like to use Haskell for several larger scale projects, but I
> can't figure out how to read and write binary data.  It does not appear
> that the language supports binary files.  Am I missing something?

Colin Runciman and his Merrie Men are working on writing
Haskell values into binary files with the additional feature
that the files are compressed.  There was a paper in the '97 Haskell
workshop and I know he's been working on it since; but I don't
think a "product" has emerged for general use.  But with encouragement
perhaps it will!

Simon