[ruby-core:78378] Improving Ruby Bitwise Operations

There is a ruby gem for bitwise operations, by Kenn Ejima, although it 
has not been updated in 4 years.

https://rubygems.org/gems/bitwise
https://github.com/kenn/bitwise

I believe that the better approach for Ruby Bitwise Operations is to 
"dust-off" this "bitwise" gem and add whatever functionality is needed. 
That might include a ".mask" method, which returns true (if any 
resulting bit is 1) or false (if all resulting bits are 0). Such a 
method would bridge bitwise operations and Ruby's true/false.

I further believe that having zero (integer, real, complex) be truthy is 
the correct behavior, which Ruby already implements.

Note that Ruby currently provides ".zero?" and ".nonzero?" methods for 
numeric types. Although the return values are inconsistent between 
Integer, Real and Complex, they do return values which are behave 
correctly (as truthy or falsey).

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If anything needs to be changed in the Ruby core, it is to make the 
results of ".zero?" and ".nonzero?" be consistently either true or false 
for all numeric values. Such a change would nicely map bitwise 
operations to Ruby true and false.
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