Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:12:57 -0800 (PST), Hal Daume III
putBits :: BinHandle -> Int{-size-} -> Int{-value-} -> IO ()
Any reason not to make those Word8s instead of Ints?
Any reason to limit value to 8? I've heard: endianness, but if we fiddle with parts smaller than a byte we already chose endianness when decided whether to fill bytes starting from the low or high bit! Starting from low bit implies LE, starting from high bit implies BE - anything else is inconsistent. Whether the format is portable or not, allowing the size to be larger than 8 doesn't change its portablility. So value could be Word8 or Word32 etc. For the bit count - they are generally expressed as Ints, as anything which is guaranteed to be quite small. Word8 for bit count is quite arbitrary and increases explicit conversions which need to be made - Int is more common than Word8. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/