Re: Semantics of vector operations

[Luke Palmer]

I wrote:
> But I think that literal >> and << are quite nice alternatives for  and
> Â [1], and if the only think that's holding us back is the bitshift
> operators, we should kill them -- turn them into functions or something.
> C<shl> and C<shr> aren't so bad, are they?

Or named operators.  As in:

    $bits = ($high shl 4) +| $low;

Luke