Re: [Haskell-cafe] Abstraction leak

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

Hello Andrew,

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I see. So build a table of codes and bitmasks and test against that...

decodeSymbol = do n <- returnNextNBits MaxBits -- this operation doesn't forward input pointer! symbol <- table1 ! n bits <- table2 ! symbol skipNBits bits return symbol

I see. While we're on the subject... am I the first person to notice that Haskell doesn't appear to have much support for fiddling with streams of bits?