Arne Goedeke wrote: >>>4) little endian support? Admittedly the use cases are narrow for >>>network protocols, but not so much for file formats.
>>I avoided that since my point of view when initially implementing the >>buffer was that it was mainly going to be used for network I/O. But it >>does work for normal files as well, so it might indeed be useful. >It blows the number of functions up a bit, so maybe its not worth it. What about Per's original idea of designating little endian ints by a negative width argument? I supported some of that in the String.Buffer version I made. It allows little endian support everywhere without creating extra functions. -- Stephen.
