Please explain behavior of setBit

[Murray Gross]

Here is my trivial program:


import Bits

main = putStr (show(bit 0::Int)++"  "++show (mybit 0))

mybit:: Int -> Int
mybit x = setBit (bit 0) x



The output (with GHC-5) is

1  1

My question: Why is (bit 0) equal to 1 and not 0? That first bit is set
regardless of the value of x (I have tried several), although in each
case, the bit I expect to be set is also set (e.g., mybit 4 yields 17).

Thanks in advance for assistance.

Murray Gross


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[Lemmih]

On 11/13/05, Murray Gross <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Here is my trivial program:
>
>
> import Bits
>
> main = putStr (show(bit 0::Int)++"  "++show (mybit 0))
>
> mybit:: Int -> Int
> mybit x = setBit (bit 0) x
>
>
>
> The output (with GHC-5) is
>
> 1  1
>
> My question: Why is (bit 0) equal to 1 and not 0?

If only the first bit in an Integer is set then the number is equal to 1.

> That first bit is set
> regardless of the value of x (I have tried several), although in each
> case, the bit I expect to be set is also set (e.g., mybit 4 yields 17).

http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Bits.html

'setBit (bit 0) 4' => 'setBit 1 4' => (binary) 10001 => (dec) 17
You're setting the fifth bit in '1' instead of setting the seconded bit in '4'.

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  Lemmih
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[Murray Gross]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Lemmih wrote:

>
> 'setBit (bit 0) 4' => 'setBit 1 4' => (binary) 10001 => (dec) 17

OK, what you are saying is that I have misinterpreted the behavior of bit,
which I thought only did a conversion, but in fact sets the zero-th
bit of a bit string. I have checked that this is in fact what is
happening. The (now solved) problem is obscure documentation.

Thank you.

Murray Gross

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