Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!maunz From: maunz@warwick.ac.uk (R. Turner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: How to reverse bits... Message-ID: <1990Aug16.140423.15324@warwick.ac.uk> Date: 16 Aug 90 14:04:23 GMT References: <1990Aug14.233308.27889@caen.engin.umich.edu> <464.26c93018@astro.pc.ab.com> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 16 In article fbresz@ittc.wec.com writes: >In article <464.26c93018@astro.pc.ab.com> browns@astro.pc.ab.com (Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems) writes: > > >>Please, no magic numbers. You can use the bitwise-complement operator, >>~ tilde >>(pronounced, "squiggle"). >> c = ~c > > Great solution obviously but it is not (pronounced, "squiggle"). >its pronounced tilda. I'm in favour of compromises. I pronounce it "twiddle". What's in a name? :) \x/inja == Keith R. Turner == maunz@uk.ac.warwick.cu "Winja? It's short for Teenage Student Winja Turbot."