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Completely agree that moving bit operations to library calls and freeing up their syntax characters makes a lot of sense. Also seems impossible!
by liminal 4y ago
Completely agree that moving bit operations to library calls and freeing up their syntax characters makes a lot of sense. Also seems impossible!
- dahfizz 4y agoDo you feel the same about +-/*% ? I think people say this because they rarely use bitwise operators, and so are scared of them.
- samatman 4y agoI don't, no. LuaJIT uses a bit library, while Lua 5.3 and up have the native bitwise operators. I prefer the former.
- liminal 4y agoI'm not scared of them, but very rarely use them and believe that is generally true for others. Basic arithmetic operators that operate on numbers (as opposed to bitwise) are used much more frequently, so I feel very differently about them.