[#4766] Wiki — "Glen Stampoultzis" <trinexus@...>

21 messages 2000/09/04
[#4768] RE: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/09/04

Hi, Glen,

[#4783] Re: Wiki — Masatoshi SEKI <m_seki@...> 2000/09/04

[#4785] Re: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...> 2000/09/05

Howdy,

[#4883] Re-binding a block — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/09/12

[#4930] Perl 6 rumblings -- RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/09/15

[#4936] Ruby Book Eng. translation editor's questions — Jon Babcock <jon@...>

20 messages 2000/09/16

[#5045] Proposal: Add constants to Math — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

15 messages 2000/09/21

[#5077] Crazy idea? infix method calls — hal9000@...

This is a generalization of the "in" operator idea which I

17 messages 2000/09/22

[#5157] Compile Problem with 1.6.1 — Scott Billings <aerogems@...>

When I try to compile Ruby 1.6.1, I get the following error:

15 messages 2000/09/27

[ruby-talk:4857] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Fixnum bitfields

From: Wayne Scott <wscott@...>
Date: 2000-09-11 17:47:55 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4857
From: Wayne Scott <wscott@ichips.intel.com>
> Well actually, 0xbabe[8,8] returns 0xba.  The bits start counting at
> zero and go up.  I design processors and write scripts that mess with
> bit fields all the time.
> 
> desc[36,4] = DATA_SEGMENT


I just realized that the '[]=' is not implimented for Fixnum and Bignum.
Add that to my feature request. :)

There is no reason we just be able to write bitfields as well.  I will
try to write a patch if people (and Matz) like the feature.  I have been
wanting to learn Ruby internals.

-Wayne

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