Re: Bitwise ops in RPG (was: Re: Determining *DS4 support) -- RPG400-L

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Mark,

>  I'd like to ask you too, what practical application would you use bitwise 
>operations for?

Scott Klement gave a practical application.   Numerous APIs have arguments (or
bytes within structures) which are bit significant.  Bitwise operations are
ideal for setting or getting these bits.  

But Scott also brings up another important point: for setting bits, it is
desirable to be able to have more than two operands.  If new BIFs (or obviously
the infix notation) support a variable number of operands, then it would be a
definite improvement over the MI builtins.

Doug
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