Starting from Scratch (was Re: OT: Modern college educa

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sat Oct 24 16:26:03 1998

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Tony Duell wrote:

> I find returning all 1's or all 0's to be the logical thing to do
> actually.

In machine language, sure. But in BASIC, it makes no sense to the
programmer to return a -1.

> Particularly when the AND and OR operators you have are true bitwise
> ones (am I correct that in Applesoft 4 AND 8 = 1? On a TRS80 or PET it's
> 0). Having bitwise AND and OR is clearly a Good Thing.

AppleSoft does not have bitwise AND or OR unfortunately (it was sorely
missed by me).

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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