Bytes are directly addressable in the most popular CPUs; bits are not. However, with an additional 20 years of C programming under my belt, I am now confident enough to tackle bit booleans, if I should become interested enough. Bit booleans offer lots of room for lots of juicy tricky clever code. For example, how do you compute +/b where b is a bit-boolean vector?
----- Original Message ----- From: "R.E. Boss" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 0:19 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Splitting an integer into its digits To: 'Programming forum' <[email protected]> > > > > The effect of ?...@$ would be even more striking in APL, which > > has bit booleans instead of J's byte booleans. (When the > > index origin is 0.) > > > > > What was the reason for J to choose byte booleans? > > > R.E. Boss ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
