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On 19 April 2014 22:03, Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com> wrote:
I dunno, I am happy about this -- took me a second to realize the
possibilities -- but things like bitfields will still be pretty
difficult maybe?

Previously yes, but thanks to the added bitwise operators, it is now much much easier - you can use shifting and masking (as you would in C when not using bitfields). Bitwise operators + string.[un]pack(int|float) is a very powerful combination.