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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:46:50 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Supporting Binary Notation for Integers
From: matthewfonda@gmail.com (Matthew Fonda)

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wro=
te:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:31:19 -0000, Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.c=
om>
> 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. =A0While i=
t's
>> just
>> more syntactic sugar (0b11111011010 vs 2010/0x7da/03732), it doesn't see=
m
>> like too bad of an idea and it is also supported by a few other language=
s.
>> =A0If 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