> I never found C style operators for bit twiddling to be intuitive (compared to assembly) even if you use the left angle brace to shift left. What I don't get

> I never found C style operators for bit twiddling to be intuitive (compared to assembly) even if you use the left angle brace to shift left. What I don't get: Are those operators present in C++ too -- wouldn't they clash with the "streaming" thingamajigs, isn't that what "<<" means nowadays?