[M3devel] Modula-3 bitfields

[Jay]

Other languages let you have "properties" that let you hide get/set functions behind field access syntax...

 - Jay (briefly/pocket-sized-computer-aka-phone)

On Aug 25, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org> wrote:

> I am in no doubt about general inadequacies of C et al…
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> What I hate is an idea of setters and getters for my bitfields. With pragma, compiler generated load/store will behave as needed. Everything transparent and just-working.
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> Divided by a common language
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> Dragiša Durić
> dragisha at m3w.org
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> On Aug 25, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Jay K wrote:
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>> Which brings me back to ...array of bytes, very clear, very portable... 
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>> If you need compactness but not exact layout, C and Modula-3 do fine.
>> If you need a portable predictable layout, other than an array of bytes, they both largely fail.
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