Subj : PL/I
To   : David Noon
From : Fred Kantor
Date : Thu Jan 11 2001 11:37 pm

DN> Hi Fred,
DN> Welcome to OS2PROG!

Thank you!

FK> Can PL/I support individual bit operations, and AND, OR, and 
FK> XOR, like Java BigInteger, and also support log, complex 
FK> numbers, etc, on such numbers?

DN> Yes. PL/I permits the declaration of individual bit variables 
DN> and strings of bits up to 32767 bits long. These do not need to 
DN> be on byte boundaries, but can be forced so by the ALIGNED 
DN> attribute.

Does polymorphism of mathematical operations extend to apply to 
those long strings?

And, can one manipulate single bit by address in such long string?

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