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* Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> [2015-06-24T08:48:28] > Allow me to attempt a summary of discussion so far. Thanks. So, I am going to cowardly try to punt here and ask someone more invested in these features than I am to make a specific proposal, given the following: What we need is a conceptual model of how Perl handles bit strings. We have operators that treat things as "numbers," which tends to mean floats, and as "strings" which basically always means Unicode character strings. For << and >> and | and & and ^ and ~, we should have consistent semantics, determined by "what is useful" and "what is consistent" and "what is already in place." If this is a big controversial mess, I can wade in and slowly try to form a coherent opinion that I can get behind. In reality, though, I've got to say that I'm not pre-invested in this particular part of the language, and it seems more sensible to ask those who are to have a crack at it. -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next