Feature #11300: [PATCH] Add String#bin for parity with #hex and #oct.

• Status: Feedback
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[0x0dea (D.E. Akers)]

Proposal

It is proposed that String#bin be added to return the receiver's value when interpreted as a string of binary digits.

Rationale

This method's absence is surprising in the presence of #hex and #oct.

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

Two points. Unlike #hex and #oct, there's little demand for 0/1 strings conversion.
Besides that, String#bin can be easily confused with "binary (raw) encoding" and cause more surprise.
Any opinion?

Matz.

[normalperson (Eric Wong)]

[e-mail] wrote:

Two points. Unlike #hex and #oct, there's little demand for 0/1 strings conversion.
Besides that, String#bin can be easily confused with "binary (raw) encoding" and cause more surprise.
Any opinion?

I agree it is potentially confusing with String#b and redundant.

I even wish redundant methods like String#hex and String#oct can go away,
too; String#to_i is enough.

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
• Backport deleted (2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN)