Re: Portability Considerations

[Alice Osako]

    Benjamin Kowarsch:
>       
>       The use of infix operators with sets isn't all that great anyway
>       since the only operators supported are not intuitive because they
>       do not match the mathematical operators.
    Not being terribly enthusiastic for infix operators in general, I
    certainly can agree.

EXPORT is only needed within local modules, that is, modules that are nested within other modules (ugly sh1t).

At the top level, everything within an interface module (.def) is automatically exported.

    Ah, I misunderstood the purpose of EXPORT QUALIFIED, then; I assumed
    from what little I knew about it that the intent was to force fully
    qualified naming in client code.

Also, since you are likely to have expressions with multiple bit operations, you want to keep the names of the functions as short as possible to avoid clutter. Across languages of the Algol/Pascal family, you will most frequently see the following names:

SHL, SHR, ASHR, ROTL, ROTR, BWNOT, BWAND, BWOR etc

    I won't fight you on this point, especially since my previous naming
    scheme assumed that fully qualified names would be enforced and only
    worked as intended if they were. I've changed the naming scheme as
    you suggested.