Re: Supporting Binary Notation for Integers

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:31:19 -0000, Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I was recently working on some code which made use of bit arrays and I >> came across feature request 50648: Format for binary numbers.  While it's >> just >> more syntactic sugar (0b11111011010 vs 2010/0x7da/03732), it doesn't seem >> like too bad of an idea and it is also supported by a few other languages. >>  If there's any interest, I'll clean up the patch and resubmit. >> > > I think it's a good idea. > > It won't spark interest in those that have already memorized the more > compact hexadecimal representation of nibbles, but otherwise it's useful a > simple non-BC breaking addition. Agreed. I have often thought this would be useful. Best regards, --Matthew