ross:
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.
For the syntax, and So that people can directly port their code from NewBinary. (The instances are basically unchanged). newtype PutM a = Put { unPut :: (a, Builder) } type Put = PutM () It is always (). -- Don