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For the prior art, here's a little survey. http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/wiliki/schemexref.cgi/arithmetic-shift http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/wiliki/schemexref.cgi/ash http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/wiliki/schemexref.cgi/ashl http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/wiliki/schemexref.cgi/logand http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/wiliki/schemexref.cgi/bitwise-and http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/wiliki/schemexref.cgi/bit-and (They are based on my skimming reference manuals. If they are not correct, edit the page) --shiro From: Per Bothner <per@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: SRFI 33 vs SLIB Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:51:28 -0800 > Aubrey Jaffer wrote: > > > ASH is another problem word, but is prior art from Common-Lisp. > > There is prior art for "arithmetic-shift". Kawa proves both. > I seem to remember getting the name "arithmetic-shift" from some > other Scheme implementation. > -- > --Per Bothner > per@xxxxxxxxxxx http://per.bothner.com/ >