Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Alex Shinn (29 Mar 2012 14:03 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes John Cowan (29 Mar 2012 16:15 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Alan Watson (29 Mar 2012 16:40 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes John Cowan (29 Mar 2012 17:40 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Per Bothner (29 Mar 2012 19:13 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Aaron W. Hsu (29 Mar 2012 20:18 UTC)
Re: Bitwise operations on bytes Arthur A. Gleckler (29 Mar 2012 20:20 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Aaron W. Hsu (29 Mar 2012 20:44 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes John Cowan (29 Mar 2012 20:30 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Per Bothner (29 Mar 2012 20:44 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Aubrey Jaffer (29 Mar 2012 17:56 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes John Cowan (29 Mar 2012 18:15 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Alan Watson (29 Mar 2012 18:26 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Aubrey Jaffer (29 Mar 2012 19:56 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bitwise operations on bytes Alan Watson 29 Mar 2012 18:25 UTC

> See <http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-60/srfi-60.html>.  Bitwise
> operations on integers (both positive and negative) are well defined
> and implementable in pure R4RS using no more bits than the input
> numbers.

The implementation of SRFI-60 assumes two's complement binary representations:

  (define (lognot n) (- -1 n))

However, in this context, the basic point that you can implement a mapping from any finite domain in R4RS Scheme using a look-up table remains valid.

Regards,

Alan

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