In article <MPG.1ada23538462981989a0c@news.povray.org>,
 Patrick Elliott <sha### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> But.... Some mathematical operations require such operations.... Or at 
> least they can use them, so it is odd that such a thing is not actually 
> supported. Any method used to simulate this, where the result needs to be 
> used as a real numeric value would take extra steps to 'build' the value 
> from the array, string or whatever. This is imho quite silly.

It is not silly. The scene language is a high level language, and has no 
concept of bits, or even integers. Its numeric values are double 
precision floats. Performing bitwise operations on these is generally a 
bad idea, and is rarely useful. These operations are rarely used, and 
nearly useless for POV-Ray scripts.

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