Probably you have seen this already, but I thought I'd mention it on the off-chance you missed it: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data.Bits.html http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data.Word.html Probably you'll want to think about an IOUArray of Word8, or something similar. Its unclear to me exactly what you mean by "bit fiddling", but perhaps this addresses your question. Florian Weimer wrote:
I'm toying a bit with Haskell and wondering what's the best way to implement bit fiddling. Most of my applications involve serializing and deserializing small blobs (IP packets, for instance), and after browsing the GHC library documentation, I'm not sure which appraoch I should use. That's why I'd appreciate pointers to sample code.
Portability beyond GHC is not required. It's not necessary to update blobs, only to parse them, and serialize new ones. And in the beginning, I'd like to write the boilerplate manually. 8-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe