RE: Bitwise ops in RPG (was: Re: Determining *DS4 support)

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the issue is convenience.  I could start my car by pushing it, but I
generally use the starter or AAA.<g>  Many other languages provide logical
AND, OR, et al. as operators like + and -.  Especially now that RPG supports
integer data types, having built in transparent support for this sort of
thing would be real nice.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Lazarus [mailto:mlazarus@ttec.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 6:07 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Bitwise ops in RPG (was: Re: Determining *DS4 support)
> 
> 
> Buck,
> 
> At 11/15/00 11:00 AM -0500, you wrote:
> >I work with telephone switch data.  Because the switch needs 
> to store many
> >millions of call records, the switch stores many attributes 
> as single bits
> >to save space.  Extracting these status bits was not 
> pleasant in RPG III...
> 
>   RPG has several bit twiddling operations.  What couldn't you handle?
> 
>   -mark
> 
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