On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:57:17AM +0200, Johan Henriksson wrote:
> toBinary :: a -> [Int] -- pack data as a string of bytes
> fromBinary :: [Int] -> a -- unpack
> binarySize :: a -> Maybe Int
> -- number of bytes for this type or Nothing if not fixed
>
> the packing would be compiler dependent s
this is just an idea, that came out from some discussion on #haskell.
if one would want to use an external fast library for storing data
(using FFI), one would need some sort of marshalling. this is inconvenient
as to my knowledge one would have to add new code for each type, correct
me if I'm wro
