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Re: Bit operations for beginners

by Limbic~Region (Chancellor)
on Aug 08, 2003 at 17:19 UTC ( [id://282265]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Bit operations for beginners

Cine,
I would also like to see this cleaned up so it could be considered for Tutorials. With that in mind, I have one more nit.

You may be surprised that it is not the "!" operator, which is more known as the "not" operator, but that is because "~" is the "bitwise not" operator.
The "!" operator is used to reverse a true value to false and not actually looking at the specific bits.

I would change 'which is more known as' to 'which is more commonly known as'. I would change 'The "!" operator is used to reverse a true value to false' to 'The "!" operator is used to flip flop the truth of a value from true to false or false to true'.

Cheers - L~R

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Re: Re: Bit operations for beginners
by mpd (Monk) on Aug 09, 2003 at 02:08 UTC
    Additionally, '~' is more correctly called the (1's) complement operator, or bitwise negation operator, both according to perlop and, by its functionality, mathematics itself. Calling it the 'not' operator is confusing, imo.

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