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From: "A. Jans-Beken" <jabe AT oce DOT nl>
Subject: How to program a set of bits?
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In a program i'am writing I have a class like this:

class PROPS {
   unsigned long set_of_32_bits;
   ...
   }

Now I want to have an operator '[]' so I can program:

PROPS flags;
flags[2] = FALSE;
flags[4] = flags[31] = TRUE;
flags[6] = flags[3];

Please note that this is not the famous BITVECT example that can be
found in many books about c++. I do not want to use a pointer to a bit
set because the pointer takes up 4 bytes extra and i'am planning to use
a huge array of PROPS (and related classes).

please respond via e-mail
thanx