From: "Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)" <jonas@...>
Date: 2011-01-19T20:10:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34601] Re: Feature request - Low level bitwise operations on char arrays (or class String)

What about String#bytes returning a new built-in ByteArray type
instead of an Enumerator ? Binary operators could then be added to
that particular class without conflicting with the existing String
methods.