[Python-ideas] IntFlags
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 5 21:39:11 CET 2015
Luciano Ramalho wrote:
> The problem is that a set is by definition unordered, but the position
> of the bits in BitFlags is crucial, so the name BitSet may not give
> the right idea.
I think the "Bit" part of BitSet covers that. It's
a set that's represented using bits, and bits have
a position.
Also, the elements of the set are conceptually ints,
and ints are ordered.
--
Greg
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