Re: A typeclass for byte operations?

Don Stewart schrieb:

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.

In contrast to Data.Bits it should use the proper parameter order, e.g. rotateBytes :: Int -> a -> a