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		rwmj on April 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing l... Sounds like Erlang's bitstring operations. I wrote a set of OCaml macros to do the same thing: https://people.redhat.com/rjones/bitstring/html/Bitstring.ht...

defined on April 23, 2017 [–]

Erlang's bitstrings are one of the things I love about the language. I've never seen an equivalent in other languages (not saying they don't exist, just that I haven't seen any).

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