i fucking hate bit shifting operation fuckery

fuck your clever math and shit

also documenting what represents what in an idiot proof way so i can easily consume it

it's beyond me how most modern languages don't have a feature like C's bit structs

And even in C/C++ it's only a half baked feature since it relies on compile specifics

Bit shifting is only math in terms of multiplying and dividing unsigned integers by two.

(And it's a sensible optimization where applicable).

All other uses are for boolean comparison reasons.

As long as it's not absolutely necessary for it to be super fast and super compact, I'd rather use a set type with enum values.

It makes you feel less than a hacker but the code is so much better.

Do yourself one better and just add integer powers of two in lieu of bit twiddling. It's the same thing anyway.

@LotsOfCaffeine I have this complaint too. Bit Fields are lot intuitive to work with than using masks, shifts

@TheCommoner282

Yes, I know it. It's one iteration of newton's method, and guess what it does? Exactly, take a float, interpret as int, and shift right, effectively halving the exponent (which handles the square root) and then using the constant to adjust the mantissa.

@LotsOfCaffeine oh hell yeah, bit fields in C are quite nice.

had an old collegue that used this when it could have more clearly been expressed in a switch statement. mind you, not less LINES of code, but more CLEAR

you choose what is more important