@@ -18,10 +18,20 @@
 
 // Delegates the call to the WriterFunc while implementing io.Reader.
 func (r ReaderFunc) Read(b []byte) (int, error) {
 	return r(b)
 }
+
+// Reads a single byte from the provided io.Reader
+func ReadByte(reader io.Reader) (byte, error) {
+	var (
+		arr [1]byte
+		err error
+	)
+	_, err = reader.Read(arr[:])
+	return arr[0], err
+}
 
 // Returns a writer that delegates calls to Write(...) while ensuring
 // that it is never called with less bytes than the specified amount.
 //
 // Calls with fewer bytes are buffered while a call with a nil slice