How to use the Lua bit module (library) ?

[verhagen]

Hello TIC-80 developers

My question is: can the Lua bit module be used? And if so, how should it be done?

In pico-8 there is the bit '>>>' shift operator, which puts in zero from the left. This '>>>' operator is not available in TIC-80.

But some searching brought up this (standard) Lua module BitwiseOperators.
As I've already used the math library, so I thought, this bit library, might be also available.

But when using bit.blogic_rshift(n, bits) there getting this error: attempt to index a nil value (global 'bit')
Also reading about importing modules, but writing the local bit=require("bit") did not do the trick.

Thanks for your help

[Weeppiko]

TIC-80 does have bitwise operators, you're just writing it wrong, it is ">>" for right shift, and not ">>>".

[verhagen]

Indeed seams to be correct case.

In Java / C an 1 is inserted on the left, when using the >> operator and a zero is inserted when >>> is used.