Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (alpha-rc2) now available

[David Manura <dm.lua@...>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Nick Gammon <nick@gammon.com.au> writes:
>>> What is the motivation for the ALL CAPS function names in the bit library?
>>
>> My guess it is to avoid the use of the reserved words "and" and "or".
>>
>> However it does look UGLY.
>
> Yeah; "band", "bor" etc are hardly _pretty_, but they're at least
> somewhat familiar and normal-looking.  AND, OR, etc, just stand out
> absurdly in code, and scream for attention.

With code having lots of bitops, I'd probably do things like

  local OR = bit.bor or bit32.OR  -- prefer JIT-optimized ops
  local AND = bit.band or bit32.AND
  local NOT = bit.bnot or bit32.NOT
  ...
  if not t or NOT(OR(x,y)) == 1 and AND(z,w) == 0 then ... end