[Haskell-cafe] Abstraction leak

[Andrew Coppin]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
>   
>> I see. So build a table of codes and bitmasks and test against that...
>>     
>
> decodeSymbol = do
>   n <- returnNextNBits MaxBits  -- this operation doesn't forward input pointer!
>   symbol <- table1 ! n
>   bits   <- table2 ! symbol
>   skipNBits bits
>   return symbol
>   

I see.

While we're on the subject... am I the first person to notice that 
Haskell doesn't appear to have much support for fiddling with streams of 
bits?