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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Supporting Binary Notation for Integers
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

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