(full quote below) > As Duncan said, the real question is what’s the point of having > Bit when we also have both Int and Blob. I think none.
I can't find anything in the existing synopses about Blobs. Probably looking in the wrong place, sorry. Blobs can handle arbitrary numbers of bits? If so, I agree, a Bit type may be superfluous, since you could compose one easily enough. =============================================================== Hodges' Rule of Thumb: Don't expect reasonable behavior from anything with a thumb. --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: how to write literals of some Perl 6 types? > To: perl6-language@perl.org > Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 7:42 AM > * TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-12-03 09:30]: > > And I want to pose the question if we really need two types > > Bool and Bit. > > I think so. Binary OR and logical OR are different beasts. > > As Duncan said, the real question is what’s the point of having > Bit when we also have both Int and Blob. I think none. > > Regards, > -- > Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
