Re: Proposal: simplify encoding of numbers in bytestring

Hi,

-----Original message----- From: Bryan O'Sullivan Sent: 2 Apr 2013, 20:29

The bytestring builder API has a large number of entry points for encoding numbers:

int8Dec , int16Dec , int32Dec , int64Dec , intDec , integerDec

, word8Dec , word16Dec , word32Dec , word64Dec , wordDec

Contrast this with the text library:

decimal :: Integral a => a -> Builder

I want to deprecate the 11 *Dec functions in favour of the same single-entry-point API used by text: it's way simpler, and no less efficient.

+1 here. Cheers, Milan