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On Wednesday-201506-24 22:27, Ricardo Signes wrote: > What we need is a conceptual model of how Perl handles bit strings. We have The core Perl doesn't have bit strings. What I mean by this is that "hexagram" isn't a bit string of 64 bits, which one could AND, OR, XOR, NOT, shift, and so forth. That's why Bit::Vector. What Perl has this strange window where "numbers" (based on the platform floats) can be mapped (truncated) into platform fixed length integers, and those integers can be manipulated as tiny fixed length (so no too much left shift) bit arrays, which however fast degrade into floats, because Perl. One could argue that with vec() one can do bit strings but that's only get/set access, no more. > operators that treat things as "numbers," which tends to mean floats, and as > "strings" which basically always means Unicode character strings.Thread Previous | Thread Next