[Haskell-cafe] Bit streams

[Jeremy Shaw]

Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> The original Binary library, circa 1998, was based on bit-streams rather
> than bytes.  You might be able to dig up a copy and bring it back to
> life.

This derivative (by Hal Daume III) works with GHC 6.8.2 (I haven't tried 6.8.3):

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/NewBinary

Not sure how to compares to the original version. It does appear to
still support bit-oriented I/O though.

j.

(Note: I just fixed the cabal stuff to work with 6.8.2 minutes ago, so if have tried it before, it should work now).