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From: bourguet@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: how to do bit-wise operation on none modular types?
Date: 1999/03/05
Date: 1999-03-05T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7boadc$9sm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7bkr0s$a7s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com

In article <7bkr0s$a7s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <F81LB1.L19.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com>,
>   stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) wrote:
> > Samuel Mize (smize@imagin.net) wrote:
> >
> > Personally, I find "X mod 16#10000#" *more* clear than "X
> > and 16#FFFF#" because bitwise "and" is working on the
> > representation, whereas "mod" is working on the value,
> > but vive la difference.
>
> I could not begin to choose between these two without
> knowing what the data in question represents.

And, obviously for you but perhaps not for the one who started
the thread, there are places where the "correct" solution is simply
a record type with the adequate representation clause.

-- Jean-Marc

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-05  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-03  0:00 how to do bit-wise operation on none modular types? bill
1999-03-03  0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-03-03  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-03  0:00   ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-03  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-04  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05  0:00         ` bourguet [this message]
1999-03-05  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1999-03-04  0:00         ` fraser
1999-03-03  0:00     ` fraser
1999-03-04  0:00       ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-05  0:00         ` fraser
1999-03-04  0:00       ` dennison
1999-03-03  0:00     ` dennison
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