Converting things to and from binary

[Derek Elkins]

On Tue, 20 May 2003 07:32:40 -0700 (PDT)
Hal Daume III <hdaume@ISI.EDU> wrote:

> I'm going to chime in here for the first time.
> 
> There was a *long* discussion of this on the libraries list a few
> months back.  See
> 
>   http://haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2002-November/000691.html
> 
> and the discussion that followed.

It also got picked up again a bit in March
http://haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2003-March/000782.html