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Bit masks are cool They are also very fragile Far better to have some maintainable and extendable (what happens when you exceed 32 binary flags?) than being o
by warrenm 3y ago
Bit masks are cool
They are also very fragile
Far better to have some maintainable and extendable (what happens when you exceed 32 binary flags?) than being overly clever for the sake of saving a couple bytes of storage
- xp84 3y agoNo dispute there, it would be silly now, I just think it was kind of cool how programmers used to understand how binary worked, and appreciate that it was worth it at one point to use 1 actual bit to store a true/false value.