[ruby-core:44768] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6361] Bitwise string operations

Issue #6361 has been updated by MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet).


trans (Thomas Sawyer) wrote:
> 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

Hmm, I guess names are a very subtle topic. I stole from [1],
but I see your point why "String" could be confusing. I don't 
really care about the name, I'm fine with anything that's
reasonable enough :)

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/bytestring/0.9.2.1/doc/html/Data-ByteString.html

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Feature #6361: Bitwise string operations
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6361#change-26330

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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