Re: [Gambas-user] Bitwise Operations Wish

2010-09-02 Thread Werner
On 02/09/10 20:06, Benoît Minisini wrote: >> There were days when binary values were actually represented in bits >> within a byte or word. This is still true when interfacing to some boxes >> such as PLCs. >> Likewise, some operations - eg calculating a CRC - are very awkward to >> implement witho

Re: [Gambas-user] Bitwise Operations Wish

2010-09-02 Thread Benoît Minisini
> There were days when binary values were actually represented in bits > within a byte or word. This is still true when interfacing to some boxes > such as PLCs. > Likewise, some operations - eg calculating a CRC - are very awkward to > implement without bitwise operations. > > It would be really

[Gambas-user] Bitwise Operations Wish

2010-09-02 Thread Werner
There were days when binary values were actually represented in bits within a byte or word. This is still true when interfacing to some boxes such as PLCs. Likewise, some operations - eg calculating a CRC - are very awkward to implement without bitwise operations. It would be really nice to have t