On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:34 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
Is there a way to get the underlying Builder of a 'put' of a Binary instance?
The binary package exposes the Data.Binary.Builder module so you can use the Builder monoid directly. There is no need to go via the Put wrapper. There is no way to get at the 'current' state of the underlying Builder value. In principle, it could provide the normal writer monad access functions. What is the use case? Is there anything you can do with direct access you cannot do with Put operations? If you want to inspect the data already written then I suggest you do not. It would involve running the whole thing twice (because internally it's something like a difference list).
How does the Char instance of Binary serialize?
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary/0.4.4/doc/html/src/Data-B... -- Char is serialised as UTF-8 instance Binary Char where ... Duncan