From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-16T09:33:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01416] Re: Bignum aset

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01406] Re: Bignum aset"
    on 00/02/15, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|> But I may be wrong.  Your openion is reasonable if most users consider
|> that a numeric is a bit container. 
|
|But doesn't the existence of [] imply that numbers are a bitstring?

Yes, integers can be considered as immutable bitstring.