What does this “>>” mean? As in…
first_payment_in_series_date >> 3
I have never used this nor have i seen it before.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:12 PM, nate hunter [email protected]
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What does this “>>” mean? As in…
first_payment_in_series_date >> 3
I have never used this nor have i seen it before.
But you do know Ruby has documentation, right? 
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means bit shift
eg
8 >> 3 means shift value by 3 bits to the right … result is 1 (8 =
1000b, after shift is 0001b = 1)
opposite is <<
1 << 3 = 8
tom
ps: in asm it is shl or shr
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On Aug 25, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Tom M. wrote:
tom
ps: in asm it is shl or shr
If first_payment_in_series_date was an Integer, then that might be the
case, but I’d suspect that a Date is much more likely with that name.
Look for the documentation for Date#>>
-Rob
(posted so future readers will not be lead too far astray)
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Yes i found it sorry for the trouble. There is so much crap in the code
I’m looking at I am having a hard time telling what is what. this can be
deleted!
On Aug 25, 9:54pm, Tom M. [email protected] wrote:
means bit shift
eg
8 >> 3 means shift value by 3 bits to the right … result is 1 (8 = 1000b, after
shift is 0001b = 1)opposite is <<
1 << 3 = 8
Of course, being ruby it can mean different things on different
objects. For Date objects for example >> 3 advances the date by 3
months (and << moves in the other direction)
Fred
nate hunter wrote in post #1018531:
What does this “>>” mean? As in…
first_payment_in_series_date >> 3
I have never used this nor have i seen it before.
The first thing you should do is try to determine the type of the thing
calling the method. The method is ‘>>’ and the thing calling the method
is on the left. Because the programmer used good variable names, it
makes it easy to determine what type the left side is.
On Aug 25, 2011, at 23:33 , Rob B. wrote:
1 << 3 = 8
(posted so future readers will not be lead too far astray)
you’re right. When date, it moves by months, I’ve overlooked the _date
in variable name
tom
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