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Common Lisp has bit string literals: Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.11-r16812M (DarwinX8664)! ? #*010010010101001 #*010010010101001

• klibertp 5y ago
  I think it's not unusual to have base-x number literals (even Python got `0b01101` literals at some point), but not many languages support pattern matching on bitstrings. In Erlang, it looks like this: 1> A = 2#0010010010101001. 9385 2> << _:2, B:4, _/bitstring >> = << A:16 >>, B. 9 3> io:format("~.2B~n", [B]). 1001 I put your number into 16-bit bitstring[1], then ignored first 2 bits, extracted the next 4 bits, and ignored the rest. CL doesn't have pattern matching in the standard, IIRC, but there are libraries implementing it, so I wouldn't be surprised if one of them also offered bitstring matching, but that's beside the point: I'm comparing Erlang and C++ here, not Erlang and CL. [1] It could be 14 or 15 bits, but I wanted to have a bit of a leading padding to ignore in the pattern. EDIT: I missed the fact that the #*01... literal in CL is not a number, my bad. The equivalent literal would be << 2#01...:N >> in Erlang, but you need to give the N (number of bits) yourself, so it's a bit less convenient.