From: "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" Date: 2012-07-02T01:16:37+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:46057] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6361] Bitwise string operations Issue #6361 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh). Your slide is received. Thank you! A new class, not bitwise string operations, is now being discussed in this thread? (I don't read the long discussion ;-) If so, it may be good to get a fresh start by opening another ticket. Anyway, your slide (and proposal) looks attractive and will be presented at the 7/21 meeting. Thank you again! -- Yusuke Endoh ---------------------------------------- Feature #6361: Bitwise string operations https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6361#change-27666 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 -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/