Re: [perl #969] [PATCH] Draft: shifting of bitvecs considered broken

> Instead of focussing on just these two shift operations I wonder if an
> analogy with arrays of bits, or strings of bits, could be developed into a
> more general interface. Like a splicebits() analogous with splice() or
> subbits() analogous with substr().
>
> With more specialized functions implemented, or at least specified, in
> terms of the general one.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Tim.
>

I concur. When I was writing Scalar::Vec::Util, I felt like the atomic
operation for vec strings really was the copy of bits, from an arbitrary
position to another. Shifting, unshifting, splicing and such then seem to
be more or less compositions of those.

Vincent.

• [perl #969] shifting of bitvecs considered broken by Chip Salzenberg via RT
• Re: [perl #969] shifting of bitvecs considered broken by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
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• Re: [perl #969] [PATCH] Draft: shifting of bitvecs consideredbroken by Tim Bunce
• Re: [perl #969] [PATCH] Draft: shifting of bitvecs considered broken by Vincent Pit
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• Re: [perl #969] [PATCH] Draft: shifting of bitvecs considered broken by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: [perl #969] [PATCH] Draft: shifting of bitvecs considered broken by Nicholas Clark
• Re: [perl #969] [PATCH] Draft: shifting of bitvecs considered broken by Chip Salzenberg
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