[HalcyonCowboy]

Yeah, case three was the one I was thinking of, though cases one and two are interesting as well. Number two requires you to think about using an arithmetic or logical right shift, though I'm struggling to think of a situation where you'd be promoting types and then not know what your intent was if you're then doing a right shift. I guess my confusion here is simply related to the idea that if you're getting that deep into binary, you'd probably want to be more explicit about what types you want to promote to, rather than relying on the Julia defaults. It's been a while since I've needed to think deeply about bitwise operations, still just as interesting as I remember.