The Perl6 operators +& +| +^ and ~& ~| ~^ need support. While we have the former, we are lacking the stringwise operations.
Now: Proposed: New: bitwise_or_int(P,P,I) bitwise_or_int_i bitwise_or_str_s(P,P,S) bitwise_or(P,P,P) bitwise_or_int_p bitwise_or_str_p(P,P,P)
Similar for "and", "xor", and the 2 argument forms.
The current opcode "bor" for integer could remain, the stringwise ops get and "s" suffix: "bors" "bands" bxors". The bitwise_xx_str vtables call functions in string.c, that do the real work.
Comments welcome, leo
PS are there & | ^ Perl6 operators too, that do either int or stringwise operations depending on the left operand?
