Talk:Library/Data encoding

Saizan (IRC) suggested: “what about using phatom types to annotate the encoding and use a typeclass to unify the interfaces?” Magnus.therning

Some discussion has taken place at [1]. Magnus.therning 11:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

apfelmus pointed out that decoding must be allowed to fail (e.g. using

Maybe

). Magnus.therning 11:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

decode

now has the type

String -> Maybe [Word8]

. MagnusTherning 18:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)