modifying bitmask to allow specifying an explicit value, and changing to uint instead of uint8

bitmask/doc.go

@@ -11,18 +11,18 @@ To use this, set constants like thus:
 		"r00t2.io/goutils/bitmask"
 	)
 
-	const OPTNONE types.MaskBit = 0
+	const OPTNONE bitmask.MaskBit = 0
 	const (
-		OPT1 types.MaskBit = 1 << iota
+		OPT1 bitmask.MaskBit = 1 << iota
 		OPT2
 		OPT3
 		// ...
 	)
 
-	var MyMask *MaskBit
+	var MyMask *bitmask.MaskBit
 
 	func main() {
-		MyMask = types.NewMaskBit
+		MyMask = bitmask.NewMaskBit()
 
 		MyMask.AddFlag(OPT1)
 		MyMask.AddFlag(OPT3)
@@ -41,5 +41,13 @@ As would this:
 But this would return false:
 
 	MyMask.HasFlag(OPT2)
+
+If you need something with more flexibility (as always, at the cost of complexity),
+you may be interested in one of the following libraries:
+
+. github.com/alvaroloes/enumer
+. github.com/abice/go-enum
+. github.com/jeffreyrichter/enum/enum
+
 */
 package bitmask