jules: > Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > > let s = encode (1.1 :: Float) > > > :t s > > s :: Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString > > > s > > LPS ["\NUL\NUL\140\204\205\255\255\255\255\255\255\255\233"] > > > > > decode s :: Float > > 1.1 > > But doesn't Data.Binary serialise to a guaranteed representation, i.e. > machine-independent? Whereas this (stupid) question explicitly asked for > *your particular hardware's* floating point rep. >
Ah right. Missed that. There was a long thread on the libraries@ mailing list on doing this (David Roundy suggested it, initially, iirc) a couple of months ago. Might be useful to read. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
