The previous code was relying on the to_be and to_le functions from the
standard library. These now rely on macros that I wrote to handle the
bit packing and unpacking. These were macros and not functions because
it is really hard to define the types and capabilities needed to
turn them into general functions. As such, the macros should never be
published publically and the Converters should be used for conversions.
The Transmutable property should be used for serialization and internally
the primitive types, Elements, all use the Converter functions and any
other objects should use the Transmutable primitives to build their
binary forms.
