From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e8b01e86b2d0a470 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bourguet@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: how to do bit-wise operation on none modular types? Date: 1999/03/05 Message-ID: <7boadc$9sm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 451490289 References: <7bjjck$25t7@news1.newsguy.com> <7bkr0s$a7s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: NetCache@sj-netcache: Version 3.3R2P1D3, 1.0 x15.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 158.140.3.201 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Mar 05 10:07:44 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.05 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) Date: 1999-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7bkr0s$a7s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > In article , > 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 -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own