Don Stewart wrote:
dominic.steinitz:
OK, so today I tried to write my first program using the Binary library. And I've hit a snag: It appears the library will only handle data that is byte-aligned. So if I try to write three Bool values, it uses three bytes, not three bits.
Before I sit down and spend 3 months designing my own library from scratch, does anybody know of an existing library that allows you to do what Binary does, but with single-bit precision? [I presume Binary is byte-aligned for efficiency...]
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary-strict
The bitsyntax library perhaps? or a StateT over Binary for carrying arround the bit packet to write.
-- Don
The vagaries of gmane have made it appear that I asked the question. In fact, Andrew Coppin asked the question and I responded with a pointer to the library Adam Langley pulled together. Dominic.