Re^2: what would you like to see in perl5.12? (bit shift strings)

That would be nice, yes. There's a proposal on the books to have a pragma to enable this.

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Re^3: what would you like to see in perl5.12? (bit shift strings) by ysth (Canon) on Aug 21, 2007 at 23:10 UTC
<joke> There'd have to be a @{^carry} "register" to hold bits left-shifted off the front. </joke>	[reply]

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