ludic/docs/language/operators/op-bitwise.md

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id: op-bitwise name: Bitwise category: operators kind: operator sig: & | ^ ~ << >> tip: Bit-level and, or, xor, not, and shifts — with Go-style precedence. order: 3

The bitwise operators work on the bits of an int: & (and), | (or), ^ (xor), ~ (not), << (shift left), and >> (a logical/unsigned shift right). They are the tools for flag sets, packing several small values into one integer, and fast multiply/divide by powers of two. Precedence is Go-style: <<, >>, and & bind like * (tightly), while | and ^ bind like +, and all of them bind tighter than comparison — so flags & MASK == 0 means (flags & MASK) == 0 with no parentheses.

const FLAG_POISONED: int = 1
const FLAG_SHIELDED: int = 2
let status_flags: int = FLAG_POISONED | FLAG_SHIELDED
let is_shielded: bool = status_flags & FLAG_SHIELDED != 0