Re: implemented missing bitSetBit() and bitGetBit()

Neil Conway wrote:
> David Helgason <david@uti.is> writes:
> > I needed these, so I went and implemented them myself.
>
> I didn't see any followup to this: do we want to include this in the
> main tree, contrib/, or not at all?

getbit sounds a lot like what substring() does.  So perhaps setbit could 
actually be handled by replace()?  That would be a more general 
solution (since it would handle more than one bit at a time).