Re: [ANN] nixio 0.3 - System, Networking and I/O library

[Steven Barth <steven@...>]

> The docs say, "Can be used as a drop-in replacement for bitlib."  At
> least it attempts to reuse the bitlib API, which Lua BitOp also
> reuses.  However, there are some differences (e.g. "shl" v.s.
> "lshift").
Thanks for pointing that out, it was just a mistake in the documentation. The 
library itself uses lshift, rshift, etc. I've fixed it in the online reference.

>
> Have you considered Mike's Lua BitOp?  That seems to be the "best
> practice" at the moment.
I'll put that on the todo for 0.4

Thanks
Steven