<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bos@serpentine.com" target="_blank">bos@serpentine.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Don't use a typeclass at all: just write encode and decode functions.</blockquote>

</div><br>Seems like a Codec class with such functions would be useful, perhaps analogous to the Binary class [1] but also suitable for textual encodings.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Alvaro</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://alva.ro">http://alva.ro</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[1] <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binary-0.7.1.0/docs/Data-Binary.html#t:Binary">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binary-0.7.1.0/docs/Data-Binary.html#t:Binary</a><br>

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