And can come with hidden gotchas. I remember dealing with one bit, presented as an object but I thought that was simply because it was in an object oriented la

And can come with hidden gotchas. I remember dealing with one bit, presented as an object but I thought that was simply because it was in an object oriented language, it was simply a calculation with no state. Many headaches later I figured out it had some local state while doing a calculation, causing the occasional glitch when triggered from another thread. They didn't claim thread safety, but there sure was no reason for it not to be thread safe.