On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Peter Cai wrote: > > My duty is writing a network server which talks to another server through a > binary based private protocol.
Haskell needs something like Erlang's bit syntax. http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/expressions.html#6.16 http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html#4 The IP header example in the latter is a brilliant real-world example. It has recently been upgraded to support arbitrary bit streams. See http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/papers/padl07.pdf Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ IRISH SEA: SOUTHERLY, BACKING NORTHEASTERLY FOR A TIME, 3 OR 4. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe