RE: Do you use BITOF?

["Joel Fritz" <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems to me that a lot of the tech interview questions and tests are
firmly rooted in the past.  One of my favorites was a question about the
logical file access path maintenance parm.  I'd never seen it or used it
because the shop I started in always used immediate.  It's one of those
things that's been made obsolete by hardware improvements.

The only time I've used bit operators recently was when I had to parse a
text file where the properties of each record were defined in a bitmap.
I used the built in functions because I found them easier to work with.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon ODonnell
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:32 AM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: Do you use BITOF?
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> I took an RPG Assessment test the other day and to my
> surprise, there were FOUR QUESTIONS! On the results of using
> BITOF and BITON. 
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> I think that I have used those opcodes maybe twice in 17
> years.   Now either
> I'm not doing something right or the RPG Assessment test from
> BrainBench.com is woefully out of date.
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> Does anyone use BITOFF and BITON on a even a semi-regular basis?
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> Shannon O'Donnell
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