Re: [Haskell-cafe] Abstraction leak

Andrew Coppin wrote:

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?

See "The Bits Between The Lambdas: Binary Data in a Lazy Functional Language" Malcolm Wallace and Colin Runciman, International Symposium on Memory Management, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 1998 ftp://ftp.cs.york.ac.uk/pub/malcolm/ismm98.html Regards, Malcolm