Re: Bitwise XOR in Lua?

[Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@...>]

On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 10:24  am, Benjohn Barnes wrote:

> On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 09:34  pm, Björn De Meyer wrote:
>
> > Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > > I'll add this routine (and band and bor) to the Lua standard 
> > > libraries
> > > project, for those who have a similar problem.
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/ | wit, n.  educated insolence 
> > > (Aristotle)
> >
> > Well, bor is simply the sum of two positive numbers, IIRC.
>
> Bit OR is analogous to addition, and often uses the same notation for 
> it's operator. However, if you add two numbers, the result's bit 
> vector will not (in general) be an elementwise xor of the argument's 
> bit vectors.

Sorry, that should have read:
	"...the result's bit vector will not (in general) be an elementwise OR 
of the argument's bit vectors."


Cheers,
	Benjohn