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From:
Luke Palmer
Date:
January 31, 2004 14:13
Subject:
Re: Semantics of vector operations
Message ID:
20040131221152.GA19955@babylonia.flatirons.org
I wrote:
> But I think that literal >> and << are quite nice alternatives for » and
> « [1], and if the only think that's holding us back is the bitshift
> operators, we should kill them -- turn them into functions or something.
> C<shl> and C<shr> aren't so bad, are they?

Or named operators.  As in:

    $bits = ($high shl 4) +| $low;

Luke
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