Re: NULL value anyone?
- Posted by Ekhnat0n Mar 31, 2015
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There are many other ways to use Booleans, depends on what the stack is for. Booleans can be stored in a single integer and set/reset using or_bits()/and_bits() which is fast and convenient.
The important thing to remember is that NOVALUE modifies the behavior of Euphoria in a massive way, and the "Cost Vs Benefit" might be awful and truly not reasonable.
Seems to me once again Shian-Lee that you are around programming quite some time.
You might possibly even remember 8086-asm coding where we used to utilise even insignificant bits
in opcodes to store booleans, just for saving crucial bytes of space as in those days
64Kb was a lot of memory that came at incredible prices.
NOVALUE indeed is a monster in disguise only needed by those who don't understand bit-wise booleans ;)
