From: davegaramond@... (David Garamond)
Date: 2004-02-24T22:59:49+09:00
Subject: bitwise AND, OR, XOR, NOT for strings?

(reposted via c.l.r from another email account; post to mailing list
doesn't seem to get through)

What do people think of adding String#&, String#|, String#^, and
String#~? I find it useful sometimes in Perl. In Ruby currently I have
to convert each byte to integer first, rather slow (actually slow as
mollasses... :-)

There are BitSet and BitVector modules (and another one which I forgot
for doing bit operations) but ironically none of them currently
provide an easy way to xor two strings together.

-- 
dave