Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:51:01PM +1100, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

Binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation for Haskell ----------------------------------------------------------------------

The Binary Strike Team is pleased to announce the release of a new, pure, efficient binary serialisation library for Haskell, now available from Hackage:

tarball: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary/0.2 darcs: darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/binary haddocks: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary/Data-Binary.html

Remind me again: why do you need a Put monad, which always seems to have the argument type ()? Monoids really are underappreciated.