Ryan Ingram
Actually, this is a good question, at least as relating to floating point values. Is there a primitive to view the machine representation of floats?
Not a primitive, but it can be defined: module Cast (cast) where import Foreign.Storable (Storable, sizeOf, peek) import Foreign.Marshal.Utils (with) import System.IO.Unsafe (unsafePerformIO) import Foreign.Ptr (castPtr) cast :: (Storable a, Storable b) => a -> b cast a = b where b | sizeOf a == sizeOf b = unsafePerformIO $ with a $ peek . castPtr -- Edit this signature at http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ken/sig Don't mess with me lady; I've been drinking with skeletons.