8 Nov
2005
8 Nov
'05
12:23 a.m.
On 2005-11-07, Tomasz Zielonka <tomasz.zielonka@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/7/05, Ashley Yakeley <ashley@semantic.org> wrote:
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 -><-