Re: binary files in haskell

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

type Byte = Word8

IMHO it looks nicer to have Byte in function names, so there can be such type synonym too.

I agree that Byte is nicer than Word8. So why is this type synonym not in the library Word of the FFI? I think that is the right place for it. -- OLAF CHITIL, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. URL: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~olaf/ Tel: +44 1904 434756; Fax: +44 1904 432767