From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-03-21T03:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no String#bin?

In article <1016615260.547741.18142.nullmailer@ev.netlab.jp>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In message "Why no String#bin?"
>    on 02/03/20, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:
>
>|We've got:
>|String#hex
>|String#oct
>|
>|but there is no String#bin.
>|
>|It seems that we should have a String#bin for completeness.
>|
>|RCR?
>
>For this purpose, 1.7 String#to_i takes an optional radix argument,
>for example:
>
>  "11".to_i     # => 11
>  "11".to_i(2)  # => 3
>  "11".to_i(8)  # => 9
>  "11".to_i(10  # => 11
>  "11".to_i(16) # => 17
>
>							matz.
>

This is very good.  It's actually a lot better than having seperate hex, 
oct and bin methods on string.

Phil