food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 11:03:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/11/2019 11:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>> But here's the problem: That's your superpower. It's enviable, 
>> it's impressive, but it's absolutely NOT shared by the vast 
>> majority of GOOD programmers, let alone rank-and-file ones.
>
> Knowing what (x & 1) is is a superpower? What about (x + x) ?

Its not about not knowing, its that it takes more time to 
decipher. People do waaaay more math than bit operations (which 
is why hash functions are still black magic to me).