[PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Right/Left Shift Zero Fill operator From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar (jeroen <email protected>)
Date: 09/10/01

> FWIW:
> Signed shift seems to make little sense to me personally, since we are
> just dealing with a row of bits, and if you really want to do a quick
> multiplication/division, you might just as well use a * or / operator -
> it is not going to hurt that much:).

I completely agree

> *However*, it's been possible in
> different languages since before I had my first computer (e.g. SHL/SHR
> and SAL/SAR in asm x86), so we might provide the same functionality and
> create a new operator to discriminate between signed and unsigned
> shifts.Just a thought. Don't kill me if that would be polluting the
> language.

IMHO: If other languages have strange things, I don't see why PHP should
take it over... Don't copy bad operators!
But... currently, how does PHP handle this? I'm afraid the wrong way?

--Jeroen 

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