On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> wrote:

Don't use a typeclass at all: just write encode and decode functions.

Seems like a Codec class with such functions would be useful, perhaps analogous to the Binary class [1] but also suitable for textual encodings.

Alvaro

http://alva.ro

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binary-0.7.1.0/docs/Data-Binary.html#t:Binary