March 5, 2018
6:12 p.m.
2018-03-05 10:52 GMT-03:00 Richard O'Keefe <raoknz@gmail.com>:
As 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.
Exactly. I want to work with a block of bits, today the best proxy for that is using an Integer.
Smalltalk/X has a BitArray class; see http://live.exept.de/ClassDoc/classDocOf:,BitArray for documentation.
This class basically does the job. Thank you for the reference. Esteban A. Maringolo