[Haskell-cafe] Just for a laugh...

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

jules:
> Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> >    > let s = encode (1.1 :: Float)
> >    > :t s
> >    s :: Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString
> >    > s
> >    LPS ["\NUL\NUL\140\204\205\255\255\255\255\255\255\255\233"]
> >
> >    > decode s :: Float
> >    1.1
> 
> But doesn't Data.Binary serialise to a guaranteed representation, i.e. 
> machine-independent? Whereas this (stupid) question explicitly asked for 
> *your particular hardware's* floating point rep.
> 

Ah right. Missed that. There was a long thread on the libraries@ mailing
list on doing this (David Roundy suggested it, initially, iirc) a couple
of months ago. Might be useful to read.

-- Don