Re: Binary mode I/O

1993-10-13 Thread Lennart Augustsson
> 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 i

Re: Binary mode I/O

1993-10-13 Thread David M Goblirsch
> 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 tha

Binary mode I/O

1993-10-13 Thread Andre Blavier
The Haskell Report says: "Binary mode I/O ensures transparency *within* an implementation". I find that this limits considerably its usage. Can't the Bin representations of Char, Int, Float and Double (and maybe more) be standardized? Ideally, I would like these datatypes to be