On 2012-06-19 17:54:48 -0400, Harry Spier wrote:
> 2. Why the names arithmetic-shift and integer-length instead of
> bitwise-shift and bitwise-length ?
Late reply, but here's a reason: SRFI-33[1] and SRFI-60[2] already use
these names. Although it looks like Racket's `arithmetic-shift` name
predat
1. Because of the length of the bitwise operators:
bitwise-and
bitwise-ior
bitwise-xor
bitwise-not
it might be useful for readability in even slightly complicated bit
manipulations to have something like the usual mathematical symbols
as aliases for these operations.
2. Why the names arithmetic-s
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