Re: boolean operators

[askok@...]

We all know that.

What's wrong with the function-kind approach, is it gets 
very tedious if your application area uses them a lot. 
Especially, if the API you're using uses them a lot. 
 That's all.

-asko

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:18:54 -0400
 Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:21:13PM +0100, Paul Hudson 
> wrote:
> > Bitwise operations would come in very useful for doing 
> > interesting things on
> > phones (implementing some Internet protocols, munging 
> > with addresses/masks
> > as has previously been mentioned)
>
> You don't need bitwise operators to get bitwise 
> operations, though.  What's
> wrong, in your case, with having them as functions?
>
>  netmask = math.or(netmask, 0x000000FF)
>
> doesn't seem any worse to me than
>
>  netmask = netmask | 0x000000FF
>
> and
>
>  flag = math.set(flag, 10)
>
> is actually clearer, in my opinion, than
>
>  flag = flag | (1<<10)
>
> --
> Glenn Maynard