From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About "set bits"
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:37:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-F0B00D.11371910042013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.23883.1365607222.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.23883.1365607222.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:46:27 +0800
> > From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
> >
> > In (info "(elisp) Bindat Spec"):
> >
> > `bits LEN'
> > List of set bits in LEN bytes. The bytes are taken in big endian
> > order and the bits are numbered starting with `8 * LEN - 1' and
> > ending with zero. For example: `bits 2' unpacks `#x28' `#x1c' to
> > `(2 3 4 11 13)' and `#x1c' `#x28' to `(3 5 10 11 12)'.
> >
> > I don't know what "set bits" means here.
>
> It means bits that are set, i.e. their value is 1.
Xue's questions about documentation often seem to suggest that he
doesn't know how to parse English. He frequently tries to interpret
phrases as computer or Emacs jargon, when they just have the meaning the
words imply.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 13:46 About "set bits" Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-10 14:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-04-10 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.23883.1365607222.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-10 15:37 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2013-04-10 22:33 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-10 22:39 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-11 8:46 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.23943.1365669842.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-11 15:19 ` Barry Margolin
2013-04-12 4:39 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-04-12 14:20 ` Xue Fuqiao
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