Speed hack dirty?

Gerardo Richarte gr at fuzzy.uba.ar
Tue Jan 20 03:46:10 UTC 1998


Christopher Oliver wrote:
> 
> In my cryptology program, I need to rotate a 32 bit value by a multiple
> of eight bits.  I started with:

	I'm also working with crypto-algorithms, and I was ready to answer what
you have already done (to use #digitAt:)

> The real question is just how forbidden is this sort of thing?

	I've used it many times, and it's used everywhere in Integer Class, so
I think it's OK, and if it's not, I'll keep using it anyway... this way
it will become a standard (-:

	Standarized Bye!
	Richie++





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