Re: getting a Binary module into the standard libs

It might be wise also to add a function like:

flushByte :: BinHandle -> IO ()

Interfaces to other things with alignment constraints (e.g., memory allocators) often have one of two generalizations: 1) (Most likely to be useful): --| flushBytes h n aligns the strean to the next 2^n byte (bit?) boundary flushBytes :: BinHandle -> Int -> IO () 2) (Less likely to be useful in this context) --| flushBytes h m n aligns the stream such that the position p satisfies: -- p `mod` 2^m == n flushBytes :: BinHandle -> Int -> IO () I'd guess that the former could be useful and that the latter is excessive for this case. -- Alastair