Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!ncar!boulder!uswat!uswmrg2!chrisf From: chrisf@uswmrg2.UUCP (Chris Fedde) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: BOOLEAN as enum Message-ID: <1990Apr11.232509.19093@uswmrg2.UUCP> Date: 11 Apr 90 23:25:09 GMT References: <1199@gtx.com> <5636@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <696@mwtech.UUCP> Reply-To: chrisf@uswmrg2.UUCP (Chris Fedde) Organization: US West Marketing Resources Group, Aurora CO. Lines: 12 Just a dumb question here... What ever hapend to the K&R field operators? Why does everyone go to all the work of making up bit manipulation macros when the language supports small integer values in native syntax? Chris Fedde uswmrg2!chrisf@uswat.uswest.com -- _ ___ / ' /_ _ . /_ _ _/ _/ _ \__/ /_/(/_/)_ / (/_(/_(/_(/_