Bitwise options in practice (actionscript)

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/*
	AS3 BITWISE OPTIONS IN PRACTICE
	Ever wondered how the Array.sort() does the trick?
*/

const BUY	: int = 0x1;  // 1
const SELL	: int = 0x2;  // 2
const BAKE	: int = 0x4;  // 4
const MUFFINS	: int = 0x8;  // 8
const CAKE	: int = 0x10; // 16
const CHOCOLATE	: int = 0x20; // 32
const VANILLA	: int = 0x40; // 64

function action( flags:int ):void
{
	var result : String = 'You want to ';
	
	if( flags & BUY )  result += 'buy';
	if( flags & SELL ) result += 'sell';
	if( flags & BAKE ) result += 'bake';
	
	if( flags & CHOCOLATE ) result += ' chocolate';
	if( flags & VANILLA )   result += ' vanilla';
	
	if( flags & MUFFINS ) result += ' muffins.';
	if( flags & CAKE )    result += ' cake.';
	
	trace(result);
}

action( BUY | CAKE ); // output: You want to buy cake.

action( MUFFINS | SELL ); // output: You want to sell muffins

action( BAKE | CAKE ); // output: You want to bake cake.

action( CHOCOLATE | SELL | MUFFINS ); // output: You want to sell chocolate muffins.

action( BUY | CAKE | VANILLA ); // output: You want to buy vanilla cake.

Remember that this is just an example of implementation. The #action() method does not consider conflicts such as action( BUY | SELL );