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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Bit manipulation
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 04:50:38 GMT
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In article <fEMfmNb1Un8J@eisner.decus.org>,
  Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote:
> The point is to make the discussion more full, and perhaps we
> will all learn about an environment where bit masking is
> required (such as the stream cipher case alluded to by John
> English).

> Perhaps we will learn that careful type declaration will
> "totally solve" the problem at hand.  Or perhaps we will learn
> something unanticipated.

Very nicely put! Indeed the point here is to learn as much
about the problem as possible, so that the solution space can
be explored in the most effective manner.

La
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