Hi Jeroen,
to give a little bit background, as a student of computersciences I happen
to work with bitshift not as a means of having a "quick" multiplication or
division, but as using it to "manipulate" bit-patterns.
The distinction between signed and unsigned rightshift is nothing strange,
obscure or redundant, but is implemented down to the machine-language
itsself (dependent on cpu-architecture).
So this is no "bad operator", but one of the most crucial operators on
bit-patterns. I don't want to sound arrogant (saying this is almost always a
sure sign, that it will ;-) ) but maybe you should inform yourself the next
time why other languages have this operator implemented.
Disabling signed shifting will force me to turn back to perl, as I use this
feature for quick hacking certain scripts I use at the University (and that
would be a very cruel thing to do :o) ) - besides, it would disregard the
"holy BC"...
Cheers & flames on (constructive comments are welcome),
Alexander
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