Re: ANN: network-alt 0.3 and hsgnutls 0.2.1

On 2005-11-07, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

On 11/7/05, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

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This brings the question on whether they would be native or big endian -

This should be unambiguous. For instance, in the address 127.0.0.1, 127 is the high Word8 of the Word32.

I vote for this. Having Haskell values in Network order is awkward, especially if you can't treat them as opaque. For example, my DNS library would be pure Haskell, if I didn't have to import htonl and friends.

You don't have to: just serialize a 32-bit int into octets by shifting and adding manually. -- Aaron Denney -><-