[Coco] replicating bitwise operators in BASIC

[Neal Crook]

>> cheers,  brett

aka Mr D. Morgan


On 9 September 2016 at 14:21, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok.. i'll one-up you all:  you can do it all with either NAND or XOR.
> Although things get pretty hideous (but possible) to do either in the
> other!
>
> cheers,  brett
> On Sep 9, 2016 8:15 AM, "Dave Philipsen" <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually the XOR could be constructed out of just AND and NOT.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/8/2016 11:09 PM, Barry Nelson wrote:
> >
> >> The operators AND, OR, and NOT work fine.
> >>
> >> Example
> >>
> >> PRINT 3 AND 2
> >>
> >> outputs 2
> >> and
> >>
> >> PRINT 1 OR 2
> >>
> >> outputs 3
> >>
> >> The XOR operator can be constructed out of AND, OR, and NOT.
> >>
> >> Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
> >>> Thu Sep 8 23:54:22 EDT 2016
> >>> BASIC gurus:
> >>>
> >>> In noodling with Jim's test code for the CoCoNIC, I realized the lack
> of
> >>> bitwise AND, XOR, OR, etc. in coco BASIC.  What's the orthodox way of
> >>> replicating these operators that are so customary in other languages?
> I
> >>> remember loads of head scratching in Lua, which like our BASIC, also
> >>> lacks
> >>> basic bitwise functions and converts all numbers to floats.
> >>>
> >>> brett
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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