Karl Denninger escribió:
> The individual boolean fields don't kill me and in terms of some of the
> application issues they're actually rather easy to code for.
>
> The problem with re-coding for them is extensibility (by those who
> install and administer the package); a mask leaves open lots of extra
> bits for "site-specific" use, where hard-coding booleans does not, and
> since the executable is a binary it instantly becomes a huge problem for
> everyone but me.
Did you try hiding the bitmask operations inside a function as Tom
suggested?
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