A Plea for Bit-Twiddlers! (please keep ! as logical negation, separate from bitwise negation!)

[ScottPJones]

Folks - let me know what you feel about my proposal, consolidated from other’s ideas here and on GitHub, and join in the Tomatina (a festival in Spain of throwing tomatos) .

A Modest Proposal (for !, &, | and ~)

Here is my combination of a lot of other people’s ideas and a few of my own into what I believe is a rather consistent proposal, that would meet everybody’s needs and desires (at least, so far as not go much against other people’s). First off, I think that the one real invariant I’ve seen for the use of ! in computer languages, is that the result is a boolean (or whatever the accepted values for true/false are, i.e. t and (), or 1 and 0, or true and false, etc.). I guess that’s why making ! t…