> Did you mean you actually type out mask values in base 10? I believe that's what they meant. I worked in C# for many years, and many, many places wrote out b

> Did you mean you actually type out mask values in base 10? I believe that's what they meant. I worked in C# for many years, and many, many places wrote out bit masts in base 10 literals as no one realized they could just left-shift. Similarly, whenever I would use the ?? (null-coalescing) operator, the reviewer would inevitably point out my "syntax error", at which point I'd have to point them at the ~10th page of the nearest C# book to convince them that, yes, that is one of the valid operators -- and it's quite useful too! Man, do I miss those first years of my career working in .NET -- dunno why I ever switched to OSS stuff.