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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote: > > For instance, I think "1 >> 32" should always be 0, and not 1 if > > you have 32 bits integers, and 0 if you have 64. > > My plan is to implement the bare minimum of changes to avoid the nasal > daemons. Which means: > > (1) negative shift means the reverse shift > (2) left shift or right shift by more than wordbits is zero Can we s/more than wordbits/wordbits or more/ that? Sure, it would lose backwards compatibility … $ perl -E 'say 1>>$_ for 63..65;' 0 1 0 $ … but that really _is_ backwards, no? EirikThread Previous | Thread Next