Hi,

> -----Original message-----
> From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
> Sent: 2 Apr 2013, 20:29
>
> The bytestring builder API has a large number of entry points for encoding
> numbers:
>
>       int8Dec
>     , int16Dec
>     , int32Dec
>     , int64Dec
>     , intDec
>     , integerDec
>
>     , word8Dec
>     , word16Dec
>     , word32Dec
>     , word64Dec
>     , wordDec
>
> Contrast this with the text library:
>
>     decimal :: Integral a => a -> Builder
>
> I want to deprecate the 11 *Dec functions in favour of the same
> single-entry-point API used by text: it's way simpler, and no less
> efficient.

+1 here.

Cheers,
Milan

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