Re: Bitwsie operators in Lua

[Wim Couwenberg <w.couwenberg@...>]

> 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.

And another shameless plug:

    http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-02/msg00641.html

Of course you can now use % instead of the math.mod call.

BTW: I replaced the "p + 1 == p" test by "p + 1 - p ~= 1" later.
The floating point purists will probably comment on that...  :-)

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Wim