[Haskell-cafe] Re: Using Data.Binary for compression

[Dominic Steinitz]

Don Stewart <dons <at> galois.com> writes:

> 
> I was about to say the same thing. So so much simpler to use Duncan's
> carefully written zlib binding,
> 
>     import Data.Binary
>     import Codec.Compression.GZip
>     import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
> 
>     main = L.writeFile "log.gz" . compress . encode $ [1..10::Int]
> 
> Simple, purely functional, fast.
> 
Don,

But something like this is needed (or I least I would like it). I'd like 
functions to get and put bits as in NewBinary. Is this not a way of doing it?

Dominic.