Why cant I format my bitewise ors to be on new lines? ``` bytes[0].toInt() shl 24 or (bytes[1].toIn...

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[ursus]

Why cant I format my bitewise ors to be on new lines?

bytes[0].toInt() shl 24 or (bytes[1].toInt() and 0xFF shl 16) or (bytes[2].toInt() and 0xFF shl 8) or (bytes[3].toInt() and 0xFF);

any sane person would write it alteast as

fun byteArrayToInt(bytes: ByteArray): Int {
            return bytes[0].toInt() shl 24
            or (bytes[1].toInt() and 0xFF shl 16)
            or (bytes[2].toInt() and 0xFF shl 8) 
            or (bytes[3].toInt() and 0xFF);
}

[Shawn]

are you particular opposed to keeping the `or`s on the preceding line?

fun byteArrayToInt(bytes: ByteArray): Int {
  return bytes[0].toInt() shl 24 or
      (bytes[1].toInt() and 0xFF shl 16) or
      (bytes[2].toInt() and 0xFF shl 8) or
      (bytes[3].toInt() and 0xFF)
}

[Shawn]

or just using an extra set of parens?

fun byteArrayToInt(bytes: ByteArray): Int {
  return (bytes[0].toInt() shl 24
      or (bytes[1].toInt() and 0xFF shl 16)
      or (bytes[2].toInt() and 0xFF shl 8)
      or (bytes[3].toInt() and 0xFF))
}

[ursus]

yea I noticed newlining after or works, but im used to my whole life from java to put operator first thing on the new line

[Shawn]

the problem is that bytes[0].toInt() shl 24 is a complete statement and the compiler doesn’t know not to interpret a SEMI after

[ursus]

oh the parenthesis works, nice, I can live with that