[MLton-devel] Int-inf shifts

[Stephen Weeks]

> I agree that you do implement floor(i / 2^n), but my claim is that that is not
> what they meant and it doesn't agree with the textual description:
> 	shift i to the right by n bit positions
> Also I have never seen a language that used that operation.
> I would mail Reppy to see if that was what he had in mind.  The notion of
> rounding towards negative infinity seems pretty bizzare since it isn't
> compatible with thinking of the left hand side as a sequence of bits.

Hmmm.  Where did I go wrong in my example?  The two notions seem to
coincide.


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