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[bearophile]

Nick Sabalausky:

>Please do, I'm curious.<

It's a handy syntax to define a pattern (like a regular expression, with bit sizes and more) and to define, mix, merge, pack and unpack bytes and bits from binary data or from local variables, strings, etc. In the end it's nothing esoteric, that's why I have said it may be possible to implement part of that syntax with a D string mixin.

See:
http://www.erlang.org/documentation/doc-5.4.12/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html

Such Erlang syntax is well known, I presume Erlang programs need to perform often those operations.

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