std.bitmanip improvements

[Marco Nembrini]

On Thursday, 27 December 2012 at 10:21:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
>
> I believe that there are a couple of threads from a few months 
> ago in D.Learn
> talking about improvements to BitArray, and some folks having 
> been working on
> that. I have no idea where that stands though.
>

Ok, I'll try to read up on that and get in touch with others 
involved.

> In general, if you have incremental improvements for things, 
> feel free to
> create pull requests for them on github. Unrelated requests 
> should be
> separate. Please don't make huge pulls with lots of stuff in 
> them. It makes
> reviewing them harder, and it's more problematic when some of 
> your changes are
> acceptable and others aren't. If they're separate, they're much 
> more easily
> managed.
>
> However, if you're talking about seriously revamping the module 
> as a whole
> rather than making a number of small improvements, then that 
> may merit a full
> review in the newsgroup, which is a different beast altogether.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I was thinking of mostly small convenience changes, I don't feel 
familiar enough with D yet to do a revamp of that, but maybe I 
can help get Era Scarecrow's version pulled.