From: "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>
Date: 2012-04-30T12:27:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:44767] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6361] Bitwise string operations


Issue #6361 has been updated by trans (Thomas Sawyer).


I'm not so sure using "String" in the name is a good idea. 

The reason I suggested Blob is b/c that's what it is often called: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_large_object

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Feature #6361: Bitwise string operations
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6361#change-26329

Author: MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)
Status: Feedback
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 


I know this has been discussed a lot in the past (and if there's still 
an open issue for this, I apologize, I couldn't find one), for example
in [1]. While it is generally no problem to implement this on the fly,
I still find that built-in support would be a real improvement. There
are quite some use cases in cryptography where this would come in very
handy, but I'm sure there are lots of other areas, too.

While of course I understand the reasons that were given in the previous
threads that ultimately lead to rejection, I still would like to reopen
the discussion as I felt that in every thread so far the consensus was
that having bitwise string operations would indeed be quite valuable. 

[1] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/34586


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