[OCLUG-devel] question about bitwise ~

[Morgan Simpson]

On Jun 5, 2004, at 10:33 AM, James Colannino wrote:

> However, I tried this on a float, and I got the following error from 
> the compiler:
>
> error: wrong type argument to bit-complement
>
> Does anyone know why this won't work on a floating point variable?

Bitwise operators require integer data types. A character is a kind of 
small integer.

Regards,

Morgan