On Monday, February 4, 2019 at 11:47:50 PM UTC+13, [email protected] wrote:

I'm sorry, I meant to type "a power of 2" in my answer, but my fingers didn't 
obey.

> Shifting can be made multiplying or dividing by pow(x,2).

(Assuming you meant pow(2,x).)

You'd want to be very careful with that, pow() returns a Float and the result 
will become a Float, which is not valid in a lot of vim script contexts, 
including the bit functions.  Float-ness can propagate unexpectedly in vim 
script.  I'd use a literal number if the shift is constant, f.ex. "x / 16" for 
"x >> 4".  If a variable shift is called for maybe use float2nr(pow(2, x)).

Regards, John Little

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