5 May
2005
5 May
'05
4:29 p.m.
Beman, Beman Dawes wrote:
"Thomas Witt" <witt@acm.org> wrote in message news:d595jr$2d0$1@sea.gmane.org...
In this case the fact that it is a bitmask type seems to be kind of misleading. Isn't the whole point of a bitmask type to be able to have multiple flags set at once?
Multiple flags are or'ed together for tests:
if ( (status(p) & (directory_flag|file_flag)) != 0 ) ...
Isn't the usual way of the standard is to describe that as a "bitmask type"?
Sorry if my post sounded offending, it wasn't meant that way. That being said it was clueless anyway. I'll search for a stone to hide under. Thomas -- Thomas Witt witt@acm.org