bit shifting

Wim Boot wimb at bart.nl
Thu Apr 23 16:55:02 UTC 1998


Dan Ingalls wrote:

>	bitClear: aMask
>		"Return a number equal to the receiver, except
>		with all bits cleared that are set in mask."
>		^ (self bitOr: aMask) - aMask
>which seems to do a fine job of clearing bit fields regardless of number size.

Can we have #bitNot (or #bitInvert) as well? Please...

Wim Boot





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