CONVERSIONS AND PROMOTIONS

Binary Numeric Promotion

5.6.2

which produces the output:

7

0.25

The example converts the ASCII character

G

 to the ASCII control G (

BEL

), by

masking off all but the low 5 bits of the character. The

7

 is the numeric value of

this control character.

 O suns! O grass of graves! O perpetual transfers and promotions!

 Walt Whitman,

Walt Whitman

 (1855),

in

Leaves of Grass

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