Re: Bitwsie operators in Lua

[Lisa Parratt <lisa@...>]

David Jones wrote:
> Treating an int as 32 bits indexed from 0-31 is just an optimised 
> representation of a table.  Let's not elevate that optimisation to the 
> status of discrete mathematics.  Personally I find that about half the 
> time when I want to use bitfields I end up overflowing the 32-bit 
> ceiling anyway (in C this is), so you have to use non-basic types anyway.

Please be explaining to me how you can do discrete mathematics in stock 
Lua without such operators, without requiring one of those academic 
theoretical computers with infinite CPU power and memory? Either you're 
being a pedant for the sake of it, or so intensely impractical I 
question why I bother.

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Lisa