Re: bitwise ops -- make them enums! (Re: what's wrong?)

[Kriss <Kriss@...>]

Mike Pall wrote:

> Just so this doesn't sound like a rant about a specific
> application: dealing with some network protocols (like DNS
> or TLS) is really, really ugly without hex numbers and
> bitfields. Don't tell me I have to write this in C ...
>  
24/32 bit colour constants are another one to add to the list.

0x00ff0000 is easy to read as red 16711680 is not, I know you can just 
go via strings, which is what I've been doing. It just feels wrong to be 
creating strings when all I want is a number.

In general I think I'd define the issue I have as:

Any processing of binary files in plain lua just seems so cumbersome 
which is a shame since text files are so easy.


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Kriss

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