25 Aug
2001
25 Aug
'01
2 p.m.
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Malcolm Wallace wrote: (snip)
A few years ago I spent a while developing a 'Binary' library which gives true bit-stream operations, where basically you can serialise any data structure to an arbitrary-length bit-stream. This library is supplied with nhc98, and Sven Panne ported it to ghc. I also adopted Noel Winstanley's standalone tool 'DrIFT' for automatically deriving instances of the Binary class, which answers one of your other questions. It is pretty easy to extend DrIFT to derive any class you might design. (snip)
Wow - that all looks great. I assume it's on its way to becoming a standard library with ghc and nhc? (-: Thanks very much! -- Mark