"Thomas Witt" <witt@acm.org> wrote in message news:d5da7v$d45$1@sea.gmane.org...
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.
It didn't sound offending at all, and that thought never occurred to me. I phrased my answer that way so I wouldn't look too stupid if you were seeing something that I was missing.
That being said it was clueless anyway. I'll search for a stone to hide under.
No way! Your comments are much appreciated. --Beman