From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-08-13T06:58:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24895] Re: IDEA: Shortcut syntax for binary strings?

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM, James Gray<james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
>> bin_data = %b{71 73 70} � # decimal values of bytes
>> bin_data.encoding � � � � # => #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT>
>
> Interesting idea. �I wish there was a way to keep that and Greg's simple
> ASCII usage both�

Hmm... yeah, I'm out of my depth here.  But that would be nice.

-greg