On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Don Stewart
I'm speaking specifically of the encode/decode functions. I have no idea how they're implemented.
Are you saying that encode is doing something really simple and the default encodings for things just happen to be big endian? If so, then I understand the pain.... but it still means I have to roll my own :-) I guess if one must choose, big endian kind of makes sense, except that the whole world is little endian now, except for networks :-) (No one *really* cares about anything but x86 anyway these days right?)
Oh, 'encode' has type:
encode :: Binary a => a -> ByteString
it just encodes with the default instances, which are all network order:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Endianness_in_networking
Yeah I understand that Big Endian == Network Byte Order... which would be true, if I wasn't talking about Plan 9's 9P protocol which specifies little endian bytes on the wire (as far as I can tell anyway from the man page). Dave
-- Don