Re: A typeclass for byte operations?

On 2009 Feb 19, at 13:12, Don Stewart wrote:

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'd think these would be additions to the Word* types, reorganized under a Word class. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH