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

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Lisa Parratt wrote:
> On 4 Sep 2005, at 15:53, Asko Kauppi wrote:
>
> > local function wputd( n )
> >     wputb( n(MASK_000000FF) )
> >     wputb( n(MASK_0000FF00) )
> >     wputb( n(MASK_00FF0000) )
> >     wputb( n(MASK_FF000000) )
> > end
> >
> > Call is overriden to provide the binary and (scaled to bit 0) of the 
> > value itself, and the mask.  I consider this easy to read.
>
> This is great functionality, but I'd still want access to the raw 
> boolean operators. Without them, there's no sensible way of doing 
> boolean algebra, which can be a great boon for optimising certain 
> algorithms. They're also pretty much mandatory for things like 
> encryption functions.

MD5, CRC, just to keep in simple (?), widely used algorithms.
Random number generators, hashes, storage of large number of booleans, etc.

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