From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T14:13:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Do you want ":=" operator?

Phil Tomson wrote:
> I suspect that the problem with doing this would be that R0 and R1 are 
> registers (arrays of bits).  He probably already uses R[0] to access bit 
> 0 of the register 
> and R[1] to access bit 1 and so on.  What he's doing with 'R0=R0&R1' is 
> logically ANDing the two registers, so that:
> 
>   R0="1111"
>   R1="0100"
> 
>   R0=R0&R1 #R0 is now "0100"

Then do it this way:

R[0]=R[0]&R[1]

> 
> for example. and:
> 
>   puts R0[0] #=> 0 

R[0][0] #=> 0

If you don't mind using two sets of brackets.