16 May
2013
16 May
'13
4:52 a.m.
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:24:31AM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 2013, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
I'm trying to expose some byte swapping (bSwap) capabilities in base, namely operation to allow to swap endianness on word{16,32,64}, i.e.:
bswap16 :: Word16 -> Word16 bswap16 a = (a `shiftR` 8) .|. (a `shiftL` 8) ...
If at all, I'd suggest a name without the 'b', since the other functions like 'shift' do not contain a 'b' as well.
apologies if i misunderstood you, but i think that's the whole point. the b is there because it's different than shift. shift works on bits, and bswap works on bytes. I don't think swap it's a good name, and also Data.Tuple already got a swap that does what i think 'swap' should do. -- Vincent