Re: [Haskell-beginners] Haskell Serialization

On Tuesday 11 May 2010 21:01:19, Stephen Tetley wrote:

On 11 May 2010 19:16, Daniel Fischer wrote:

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Int8 and Word8 are unproblematic (unless you have a ones-complement machine), the problems appear only for larger types, [SNIP]

Hi Daniel

Likely I was revealing a personal bias on that one, the only protocol I've implemented where Int8 has featured has been MIDI.

If MIDI isn't ones-complement, my codes - I've written decoders / encoders several times - have been wrong for years...

I've no idea how MIDI messages/files/streams are interpreted, I was thinking about the hardware, how the ALU interprets the bit-pattern for arithmetic.

Best wishes

Stephen