v1.9.5

FIXED:
* HasFlag would inappropriately report true for m = A, flag = A | B.
  This has been rectified, and this behavior is now explicitly
  exposed via IsOneOf.

.encoding.TODO/bit/docs.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*
+Package bit aims to provide feature parity with stdlib's [encoding/hex].
+
+It's a ludicrous tragedy that hex/base16, base32, base64 all have libraries for converting
+to/from string representations... but there's nothing for binary ('01010001' etc.) whatsoever.
+
+This package also provides some extra convenience functions and types in an attempt to provide
+an abstracted bit-level fidelity in Go. A [Bit] is a bool type, in which that underlying bool
+being false represents a 0 and that underlying bool being true represents a 1.
+
+Note that a [Bit] or arbitrary-length or non-octal-aligned [][Bit] may take up more bytes in memory
+than expected; a [Bit] will actually always occupy a single byte -- thus representing
+`00000000 00000000` as a [][Bit] or [16][Bit] will actually occupy *sixteen bytes* in memory,
+NOT 2 bytes (nor, obviously, [2][Byte])!
+It is recommended instead to use a [Bits] instead of a [Bit] slice or array, as it will try to properly align to the
+smallest memory allocation possible (at the cost of a few extra CPU cycles on adding/removing one or more [Bit]).
+It will properly retain any appended, prepended, leading, or trailing bits that do not currently align to a byte.
+*/
+package bit

.encoding.TODO/bit/funcs.go

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package bit
+
+// TODO: Provide analogues of encoding/hex, encoding/base64, etc. functions etc.
+
+/*
+	TODO: Also provide interfaces for the following:
+
+	* https://pkg.go.dev/encoding#BinaryAppender
+	* https://pkg.go.dev/encoding#BinaryMarshaler
+	* https://pkg.go.dev/encoding#BinaryUnmarshaler
+	* https://pkg.go.dev/encoding#TextAppender
+	* https://pkg.go.dev/encoding#TextMarshaler
+	* https://pkg.go.dev/encoding#TextUnmarshaler
+*/

.encoding.TODO/bit/types.go

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package bit
+
+type (
+	// Bit aims to provide a native-like type for a single bit (Golang operates on the smallest fidelity level of *byte*/uint8).
+	Bit bool
+
+	// Bits is an arbitrary length of bits.
+	Bits struct {
+		/*
+			leading is a series of Bit that do not cleanly align to the beginning of Bits.b.
+			They will always be the bits at the *beginning* of the sequence.
+			len(Bits.leading) will *never* be more than 7;
+			it's converted into a byte, prepended to Bits.b, and cleared if it reaches that point.
+		*/
+		leading []Bit
+		// b is the condensed/memory-aligned alternative to an [][8]Bit (or []Bit, or [][]Bit, etc.).
+		b []byte
+		/*
+			remaining is a series of Bit that do not cleanly align to the end of Bits.b.
+			They will always be the bits at the *end* of the sequence.
+			len(Bits.remaining) will *never* be more than 7;
+			it's converted into a byte, appended to Bits.b, and cleared if it reaches that point.
+		*/
+		remaining []Bit
+		// fixedLen, if 0, represents a "slice". If >= 1, it represents an "array".
+		fixedLen uint
+	}
+
+	// Byte is this package's representation of a byte. It's primarily for convenience.
+	Byte byte
+
+	// Bytes is defined as a type for convenience single-call functions.
+	Bytes []Byte
+)

bitmask/bitmask.go

@@ -34,11 +34,47 @@ func NewMaskBitExplicit(value uint) (m *MaskBit) {
 	return
 }
 
-// HasFlag is true if m has MaskBit flag set/enabled.
+/*
+	HasFlag is true if m has MaskBit flag set/enabled.
+	THIS WILL RETURN FALSE FOR OR'd FLAGS.
+	For example:
+
+		flagA MaskBit = 0x01
+		flagB MaskBit = 0x02
+		flagComposite = flagA | flagB
+
+		m *MaskBit = NewMaskBitExplicit(uint(flagA))
+	
+	m.HasFlag(flagComposite) will return false even though flagComposite is an OR
+	that contains flagA.
+	Use [MaskBit.IsOneOf] instead if you do not desire this behavior,
+	and instead want to test composite flag *membership*.
+	(MaskBit.IsOneOf will also return true for non-composite equality.)
+*/
 func (m *MaskBit) HasFlag(flag MaskBit) (r bool) {
 
 	var b MaskBit = *m
 
+	if b&flag == flag {
+		r = true
+	}
+	return
+}
+
+/*
+	IsOneOf is like a "looser" form of [MaskBit.HasFlag]
+	in that it allows for testing composite membership.
+
+	See [MaskBit.HasFlag] for more information.
+
+	If composite is *not* an OR'd MaskBit (i.e.
+	it falls directly on a boundary -- 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.),
+	then IsOneOf will behave exactly like HasFlag.
+*/
+func (m *MaskBit) IsOneOf(composite MaskBit) (r bool) {
+
+	var b MaskBit = *m
+
 	if b&flag != 0 {
 		r = true
 	}