posted 20 years ago
I've usually used them in other languages in much lower-level stuff, interpreting flags and bitmaps from the operating system. I made a little class to convert from IBM mainframe packed decimal to integer the other day that used shift, & and | operations, again pretty low-level. Any other typical applications out there?
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