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Add: Extend DECLARE_ENUM_AS_BIT_SET with extra operations #8254

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@techgeeknz techgeeknz commented Jul 2, 2020

The idea here is to simplify, and lower the cognitive overhead of, the common operations of setting, clearing, and interrogating bits of the various enums that are used as bitsets within the codebase.

For example:

  • setting bits: flags |= bits ==> flags += bits
  • clearing bits: flags &= ~bits ==> flags -= bits
  • mask testing: flags & mask != 0 ==> any(flags, mask), flags & mask == 0 ==> none(flags, mask)
  • membership: flags & mask == mask ==> all(flags, mask), flags & bit != 0 ==> test(flags, bit)

I originally tried <= and >= as subset and superset operators (respectively), but that seems to interfere with the builtin operators and break stuff; and I don't think we have any actual use cases for them anyway.

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The idea here is to simplify, and lower the cognitive overhead of,
the common operations of setting, clearing, and interrogating bits
of the various enums that are used as bitsets within the codebase.
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LordAro commented Jul 2, 2020

We don't like adding code that serves no purpose. Functions should be added as and when they're needed, and adding 8 functions for every single bitset enum type isn't exactly going to help with optimisation/compile times/etc

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techgeeknz commented Jul 2, 2020

We don't like adding code that serves no purpose. Functions should be added as and when they're needed, and adding 8 functions for every single bitset enum type isn't exactly going to help with optimisation/compile times/etc

That's cool. I thought it'd be worth floating the idea to see if it had any merit. These are things we use a lot, so it's probably worthwhile to make their operations as readable as possible.

Obviously, this PR is incomplete and the purpose of this commit is to test the waters before diving in and rewriting every single bitset operation in the codebase.

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