Author: Darren_Duncan
Date: 2010-07-12 03:01:55 +0200 (Mon, 12 Jul 2010)
New Revision: 31630
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
Log:
S02 : add initial formats for Blob (or Buf) literals
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
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--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2010-07-11 22:26:48 UTC (rev 31629)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2010-07-12 01:01:55 UTC (rev 31630)
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
Created: 10 Aug 2004
- Last Modified: 9 Jul 2010
- Version: 218
+ Last Modified: 11 Jul 2010
+ Version: 219
This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale
lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain
@@ -3189,6 +3189,19 @@
=item *
+Blob literals look similar to integer literals with radix markers, but are
+distinct in their details. A Blob literal has 1 format with 3 radix
+options:
+
+ 0b<00101110100010> base 2, 1 bit per column
+ 0o<523504376> base 8, 3 bits per column
+ 0x<A705E> base 16, 4 bits per column
+
+TODO: Expand this for more generality. Meanwhile, this existing
+definition covers the common cases of specifying in bits and hexits.
+
+=item *
+
Characters indexed by hex numbers can be interpolated into strings
by introducing with C<"\x">, followed by either a bare hex number
(C<"\x263a">) or a hex number in square brackets (C<"\x[263a]">).
