discord_luau/bit

Bit library for Luau supporting integers up to 52 bits, intended for working with Discord permission flags.

Source: packages/bit

Installation

pesde add discord_luau/bit

Example

local Bit = require("./luau_packages/bit")

local SEND_MESSAGES = Bit.lshift(1, 11)

local MANAGE_CHANNELS = Bit.lshift(1, 4)

local permissions = Bit.bor(SEND_MESSAGES, MANAGE_CHANNELS)

print(Bit.band(permissions, SEND_MESSAGES) ~= 0)

-- Works with permission values beyond 32 bits
local HIGH_PERMISSION = Bit.lshift(1, 46)

local combined = Bit.bor(permissions, HIGH_PERMISSION)

print(Bit.band(combined, HIGH_PERMISSION) ~= 0)

Full documentation at discordluau-docs.devcomp.workers.dev.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome via the repository at github.com/DiscordLuau/discord-luau.

License

This package is licensed under the MIT License.