From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hfulton@...>
Date: 2000-09-12T08:37:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4875] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Fixnum bitfields


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Wayne Scott <wscott@ichips.intel.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:47 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:4857] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Fixnum bitfields


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

Oh, really, don't you think this is a bit much? When
does it make sense to set an individual digit of a
large decimal number?

Is it really done often enough that it needs to be done
in one line of code rather than two?

Hal Fulton