alt Hacker NewsPlease don't, inscrutable bitwise operators are an accident of the past even in systems languages, let alone in a scripting language. I'm not against infix operators for bitwise operations, just please spell them out with keywords rather than giving them sigils.
Likewise, going from `and` and `or` to `&&` and `||` would be a dispiriting regression. This is something that Zig got right.
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astrobe_ • today at 6:27 AM
You can have them in C/C++ at least [1]
[1] https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/operator_alternativ...
gautamcgoel • today at 3:10 AM
Doesn't Zig also have bitwise operators?
JSR_FDED • today at 2:21 AM
The btiwise operators library doesn’t go away
krapp • today at 9:55 AM
I'm going to disagree only because one of the primary use cases for LuaJIT is interop with C and I think there's a case for making the ergonomics match.
What kind of person understands and needs bitwise operators but can't easily remember & | ~ and the arrows for shift? It's very little information.
The part I'd call a hassle is the different kinds of right shift but you have that same hassle if you use keywords.
I like using the and/or keywords for logical operations. Now let's make bitwise look significantly different from that.