Author Topic: can someone explain what this means please  (Read 15725 times)

nobody

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can someone explain what this means please
« on: March 23, 2009, 05:25:06 PM »
dd ((_d<<7|_u)<<7|_p)<<11

nobody

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Re: can someone explain what this means please
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2009, 05:46:43 PM »
this is the directory "entry" for dup in a standalone forth and I've just noticed that all entries have numbers that add up to 25.

I've just read that << means shift so it seems to be moving the "chars" into the right order but what a weird bracketing notation.

Can someone please explain this

nobody

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Re: can someone explain what this means please
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2009, 06:24:55 PM »
I understand the brackets now!
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