On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 00:33:03 UTC, Jakub Łabaj wrote:
On the other hand, shifting operators are equally confusing for
me, as they are for you - they really work in the other way
around! I thought this is a very weird bug, but I found this
pull request: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/2844, which
states this is the intended behaviour.
I don't know if there is anybody that would expect this - it's
inconsistent with any other bitset implementation I know from
other languages, as well as with what logic suggests. I'm
curious if the authors changed their minds in this regard and
there is any chance for that to be rewritten?
The same confusion existed amongst the authos, that pull was done
in reaction to
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/2797#discussion-diff-22456052.
So the shift direction seems to be as intended (by Martin Nowak
at least) but the docs should be clear in what order the bits are
printed and indexed. I guess.
