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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Supporting Binary Notation for Integers
From: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt ("Gustavo Lopes")

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.


-- 
Gustavo Lopes