On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Richard O'Keefe <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As I understand it, the OP's problem is that he wants to > count bits from the high end, and Integers don't *have* > a finite high end. > > PL/I has bit strings. Common Lisp has bit strings. > Some Schemes have copied Lisp. Eiffel _had_ bit strings, > more or less, but dropped them. > > Smalltalk/X has a BitArray class; see > http://live.exept.de/ClassDoc/classDocOf:,BitArray > for documentation. > > Great documentation ! We need something like that for Pharo classes. -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC/UY1) "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/
