[racket-dev] Bitwise operators

From: Harry Spier (vasishtha.spier at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 19 17:54:48 EDT 2012

1. Because of the length of the bitwise operators:
bitwise-and
bitwise-ior
bitwise-xor
bitwise-not

it might be useful for readability in even slightly complicated bit
manipulations to have something like the usual mathematical symbols
as aliases for these operations.

2. Why the names arithmetic-shift and integer-length instead of
bitwise-shift and bitwise-length ?

Thanks,
Harry Spier

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