On Sun May 15 14:40:48 2011, tom christiansen wrote: > The misplaced discussion in perlop on 3 out of the 4 bitwise operators' > behaviour on "bitstrings" is insufficient. It is suggesting things > that are not true. Can you elaborate? > > Two things need to happen: > > (1) That material needs to be next to the operators, > not someplace else. > > (2) It needs to explain that strings are not literal bitstrings > comprising literal bits but rather comprising logical characters. > > % perl -le 'printf "%vX\n", "abc" ^ "\x{3b1}\x{1066}\x{11222}"' > 3D0.1004.11241 > > --tom Better still, can you supply a patch? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=90646Thread Next