Bitflags

[Brian Hook <hook_l@...>]

I know this topic comes up every now and then, but I still haven't 
seen a succinct summary of it -- but basically fast bit flags don't 
seem possible with Lua, which somewhat limits it as a scripting 
language for a project I'm working on.

The key issue is that Lua doesn't have an integer type and the 
associate bit twiddling operators.  I'm assuming that this has been 
shot down numerous times as bad, so what are people doing in the 
interim to address this?

Thanks,

Brian