[erlang-questions] Booleans in bit syntax

[Pierre Fenoll]

> I'd just like to point out that the logic is sometimes inverted.
Specifically when you're interfacing to certain types of hardware.

How about introducing both /bool0 and /bool1


Cheers,
-- 
Pierre Fenoll


On 22 January 2018 at 01:36, Kostis Sagonas <kostis@REDACTED> wrote:

> On 01/21/2018 03:14 AM, Viktor Söderqvist wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2018-01-20 15:58, Kostis Sagonas wrote:
>>
>>> Suddenly adding some syntactic sugar which transforms 1s to trues and 0s
>>> to falses in binaries does not add any significant expressive power to
>>> the language; just confusion.
>>>
>> Isn't most of the binary syntax just syntactic sugar for conversions?
>>
>
> No, it's not just syntactic sugar.  The binary/bitstring data type is
> something that cannot be converted to some other Erlang term with the same
> (space-efficient) underlying representation.
>
> Kostis
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