March 5, 2018
5:45 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Richard O'Keefe <raoknz@gmail.com> wrote:
âAs I understand it, the OP's problem is that he wants to count bits from the high end, and Integers don't *have* a finite high end.
PL/I has bit strings. Common Lisp has bit strings. Some Schemes have copied Lisp. Eiffel _had_ bit strings, more or less, but dropped them.
Smalltalk/X has a BitArray class; see http://live.exept.de/ClassDoc/classDocOf:,BitArray for documentation.
âGreat documentation ! We need something like that for Pharo classes. -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC/UY1) "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/