About the issue cited below: our java people think that bitmask are not that common in Java, but would feel comfortable with any API spec defining bitmasks, as they are easy enough to implement, and not considered ugly really. I got no other proposal from tyhem for defining flags, so I think bitmasks it is -- unless there are other opinions on this list (last calls!). We checked the file permision stuff in Java, can you imagin what they do? A _string_ containing a comma separated list of keywords, such as "read, write" - ugh! ;-) Cheers, Andre.
- General: sometimes bitwise OR-s are used for multiple options (Stream/ActivityType, P59), sometimes arrays of values (NameSpace/CopyFlags, P9). Why no convention?
-> I agree, bitwise OR is simplier -> TODO ANDRE: check for languages, fix
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