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jloughry on May 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: New C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operator...

It's a side effect of two's complement representation of integers. There ought to be a repository somewhere for neat tricks like this (with a warning never to use them in production).

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kyteland on May 25, 2015 [–]

There is, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Henry-Warren/dp/03...

orlp on May 25, 2015 | | [–]

Was going to recommend Hacker's Delight, and saw I was too late :)

avz on May 26, 2015 | | | [–]

One of the "tadpole" operators is actually on the cover right above "Delight".

fmela on May 26, 2015 | | [–]

I own this book, and it is fantastic.

There's also HAKMEM[1] and the FXT book[2].

[1]: http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html [2]: http://www.jjj.de/fxt/

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