On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 09:10 +0200, Sven Panne wrote: > foo :: Binary a => ... -> a -> ..."? This should probably mean "foo is > using some portable (de-)serialization, but doesn't care about the > actual representation",
I'm probably missing something, but: How can the format be portable if the representation isn't unambigously defined? And if it is unabmigously defined, what's wrong with using it for externally defined data formats? -k _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe