> 
> Well, efficient bit vectors are pretty important and fairly widely used for
> cryptography, digital logic design, process control stuff, and all sorts of
> other things. So I am in favor of them being included in the language (and I
> expect the speed advantage of being coded in C would be pretty large in many
> cases of interest to application developers).

 Why not just make an extension ?

 If this extension is really usefull and used by many people, then you can
integrate it in ruby.

 No ?


Guy Decoux