Re: Add binary and/or cereal to the Haskell Platform

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:

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My current thinking is that perhaps it's better to leave both out.

For me, a disincentive to accepting binary is that it doesn't provide a way for a Get to fail. I'd be more in favour of cereal for that reason.

I switched my latest in progress package to cereal for this reason, and because I needed to incrementally supply data while parsing. -- Johan