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Id: 49811
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Queue: Bit-Vector-Array

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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 0.02
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Subject: Better document limit to integer size
Bit::Vector::Array is limited to represent an integer. This is not just a limitation in the implementation but a design choice (the use of $# to fetch/store the whole value as an integer). So the size limit to integer size (32 bits or 64 bits) should be clearly documented in the abstract so CPAN searchers looking for a bit array of infinite size could quickly look for something else. The abstract could be "Manipulates an integer a an array of bits". The documentation could also point to the vec() built-in.