On Saturday, January 25, 2014 09:36:59 AM David Piepgrass wrote: > > I think you misunderstand. Rounding up to 8 bits makes sense; not > > allowing > > the user to define, say, a 23-bit type is what I question.
See BitArrays, which store logical values using a single bit. In the end you're always going to have to have the complete container be an integer number of bytes, but within the container you can do anything you want (if you're writing the code to support it). --Tim
