From: Gennady Bystritsky <gfb@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T12:36:48+09:00
Subject: Re: bit/byte operations

$ ri '<<'

It gives you all classes containing method '<<', witch for Fixnum  
means left bit shift.

Gennady.

On Jun 27, 2005, at 20:24, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I am looking for bit operatios like left/right shift, rotate
>  left/right, exor-ing/or-ing/and-ing/not-ing of single bits and groups
>  of bits.
>
>  The problem...I dont know, what keyword to feed into ri.
>
>  I tried bit/byte/exor and suc but there was "nothing found".
>
>  Where can I look for some informations?
>
>  (or is it too contradictionary to look for such low level operations
>  in such a highest level ( <<--only meant POSITIV!) language like
>  Ruby?
>
>  Thank you very much for any help in advance!
>  Meino
>
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