Are you bent on making it more elaborate/complicated than it needs to be? Why not just keep it encode/decode?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Alvaro J. Genial <gen...@alva.ro> wrote: > > 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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