Binary numbers with Haskell

Question

I know it is possible with Haskell to pass values in octal with 0o777 and Hexadecimal with 0x1FF but:

Is it possible to pass a value in binary with Haskell?

Doug McClean · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-17 19:12:21Z

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Yes, with the {-# LANGUAGE BinaryLiterals #-} extension, as 0b01101. See here for some more details.

answered Dec 17, 2015 at 19:12

Doug McClean

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I really hope that extension gets in the next Haskell Report. It's obviously a good idea.

To enable in ghci, add :set -XBinaryLiterals in your ~/.ghci config