Re: Supporting Binary Notation for Integers

On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:46:50 pm Matthew Fonda wrote: > 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 Especially given how common it is to use hex constants as bit flags, being able to define them in binary to begin with would help readability. (Yes, I just said "writing in binary" would "help readability." God help us all. <g>) +1 --Larry Garfield