>>> Bit Manipulation: >>> ---------------------- >>> * and >>> * or >>> * xor >>> * complement >>> * left shift >>> * right shift >> >> Maybe. I have a hard time coming up with uses for these, other than >> possibly the shift operators (but multiplication/division can be used >> instead).
Pete Dietl (20 May 2020 18:21) > Yeah I was thinking the use case could be a little obscure, > but maybe for some sort of version parsing where bits > are strangely encoded. > > But again I'd say that it's pretty easy to implement. >> Again, the questions in my email yesterday need to be addressed. > I totally missed that email somehow. I'll address it in another email. >> Mult-base support: should we support only base 10 integer constants in >> expressions, or also hex/octal constants? > I vote for decimal, hex, and binary. > Octal if you really want it. A case for octal and bitwise and/or is that they're what you need to manipulate chmod permissions. Of course, that'd also require being able to *expand* the resulting number as octal ... Eddy.