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).
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