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Followup to the Integer toggle code

My good friend Greg mentioned that I should use bitwise operators to perform a toggle, as opposed to my earlier method of using integer math to manipulate the state.  I had not done that because the bitwise implementation is imho not comprehensible by a developer who does not have a CS degree.

As an example it is not at ALL clear to most people that ~2<<10 != ~(2<<10)

Although I suppose that's the point of a method name.



/**
 * A simple way to implement a toggle switch using an integer to store the state
 * and bitwise operators to manipulate the toggle
 * 
 * @author Dan Fishman http://www.fishdan.com
 *
 * This code released to the public under the CreativeCommons 3.0 license by
 * the author on 8/21/2011
 * 
 * http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
 */

public class TestToggle {

  public static int toggleState=0;
  
  public static void main(String argv[]){
      for(int x=0;x<32;x++){
        System.out.println(x+":"+Integer.toBinaryString(toggleState));
        System.out.println(x+":"+Integer.toBinaryString(2 << x));
        toggle(true,x);
        System.out.println("-----------------------");
        System.out.println(x+":"+Integer.toBinaryString(toggleState));
        System.out.println("isOn "+x+" == "+toggleIsOn(x));
        toggle (false,x);
        System.out.println("isOn "+x+" == "+toggleIsOn(x));
        System.out.println("");
      }    
      
      //PAY ATTENTION TO THESE TWO LINES  order of operations can be tricky in bitwise
      // see http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/javaoperators.php
      System.out.println("**"+Integer.toBinaryString(~2<<10));
      System.out.println("**"+Integer.toBinaryString(~(2<<10)));
  }

  /**
  * if onOff==true we set the value at pos == 1 aka on
  * else we set it to 0;
  * @param onOff
  * @param pos
  */
 public static void toggle(boolean onOff, int pos){
     if(onOff==true){
         toggleState |= 2 << pos;
     }
     else{
         toggleState &= ~(2<<pos);
     }
 }
 
 public static boolean toggleIsOn(int x){
     return (toggleState & 2<<x) == 2<<x;
 }        
    
}

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