pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
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+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.
Note that another option might be substitution of a quotation-pair for the <>:
0b'00101110100010' base 2, 1 bit per column
0o'523504376' base 8, 3 bits per column
0x'A705E' base 16, 4 bits per column
But the general idea is that a Blob/Buf literal ought to look like something
between an integer and a string.
There is also still the need to cover something that looks like a list of
integers, for the general case of a Blob/Buf literal, and yet it should have an
appearance more like that of a scalar/number/string/etc than of an array/etc.
Any thoughts on this?
-- Darren Duncan
