danb_83 at yahoo.com (Dan Bishop) wrote in message news:<ad052e5c.0308091449.551562ba at posting.google.com>... > > One correct way of writing the expression without parentheses is > > a[0] | a[1] << 8 | a[2] << 16 | a[3] << 24 Sorry, Dan, I filed the patent application yesterday :-)