admittedly i had to read up quickly on the usage of a *binary pattern*where each
bit in said *pattern* is used to represent the state of some boolean
variable.
wikipedia sufficed <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation#OR>
this makes much more sense to me now; as ive seen this technique before
but never
taken in a formal explanation of it.
i hesitate now to suggest what i would do, which would be to define an
object
encapsulating an array of boolean variables and providing acccessors and
mutators for each
respective value it represented. presumably the internal implementation
might be
enhanced using the bitwise OR mechanism discussed in this thread, in which
case
we would still like to know how to best handle the implementation
component of said
object.
but i do very much love my objects :>
nice thread,
-nathan