> Can you give an example of how this capability in CL is used? Common Lisp for example can extract/set a byte given its width and its position: CL-USER 1

> Can you give an example of how this capability in CL is used? Common Lisp for example can extract/set a byte given its width and its position: CL-USER 145 > (write (ldb (byte 11 2) #b1100101011010110) :base 2) 1010110101 (byte 11 2) is a specifier for this: 11 = width, 2 = position. Historically this comes form a DEC PDP-10 instruction 'load byte'.