On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com>wrote:

> Don't use a typeclass at all: just write encode and decode functions.


Seems like a Codec class with such functions would be useful, perhaps
analogous to the Binary class [1] but also suitable for textual encodings.

Alvaro
http://alva.ro

[1]
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binary-0.7.1.0/docs/Data-Binary.html#t:Binary
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