[Oberon] Bit manipulation in Oberon-07

[Skulski, Wojciech]

Joerg:

in most cases, standard coding is preferred over growing teh SYSTEM with custom instructions. On the other hand, IMHO I would prefer defining my own procedures and using them, over littering the high level code with cryptic low level statements. I admit it is a my personal preference.

1) UBFX(dst, src, 5, 10);  <-- procedure call 
2) dst := src DIV b5 MOD b10; <-- cryptic statement.

In my own practice I would probably prefer #1. I would probably wrap #2 as a PROCEDURE and then call it in my high level code. But this would bring performance penalty on every call.

This brings up another question: how about inline procedures? We could eat the cake and have the cake.

Inlining is a standard practice in those inferior languages, you know ;-)

Thank you,
Wojtek