Updating those 2 lines would be the least of our problems if this value
ever changes.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 12:33 PM Jan Mercl <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 11:23 AM Heisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Constant definition in token.go:
> >
> > literalType = 0 << 30
> >
> > The only use I see is:
> >
> > func (t token) literal() uint32 { return uint32(t - literalType) }
> > func literalToken(literal uint32) token { return token(literalType +
> literal) }
> >
> >
> > I don't know what the purpose of this writing is. Is it okay to remove
> literalType?
>
> No, it's a particular value of  bitfield. That the value happens to be
> zero does not matter. Written this way it's future-proof - would the
> value need change to some other value.
>
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