Re: A typeclass for byte operations?

dons:

Hey guys,

At work we have many and varied needs to do bytewise operations on Haskell data. Things like:

toBigEndian rotateBytes

etc.

Has anyone thought about:

* A "Bytes" class, like the Bits class? Providing standard operations on values treated as bytes?

* An Endian class, a la fromIntegral, for flipping bytes into a particular endianness.

I found http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/byteorder/1.0.0/doc/html/System-... http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/byteorder-1.0.0 On Hackage. which does a few things in this area.