Re: [Haskell-cafe] Just for a laugh...

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

> let s = encode (1.1 :: Float) > :t s s :: Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString > s LPS ["\NUL\NUL\140\204\205\255\255\255\255\255\255\255\233"]

> decode s :: Float 1.1

But doesn't Data.Binary serialise to a guaranteed representation, i.e. machine-independent? Whereas this (stupid) question explicitly asked for *your particular hardware's* floating point rep. Jules