From b832504f109d242adaa75e3cb20dba9e80fee80a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hl-valdemar <valdemar.lorenzen@icloud.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:25:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] style: spell AST flag masks in binary

---
 README.md          | 2 +-
 source/ast/ast.hon | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a54488c..d97e1ae 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ build Honey from this directory:
 bro build
 ```
 
-the bootstrap must support contextual `&[]` literals for mutable slices; collection initialization and reset use these literals instead of a dedicated empty-slice helper. if the installed `bro` predates that feature, use `../brolang/build/brolang build` after rebuilding Bro. zero-sized elements with nonzero logical lengths still use the memory module's specialized storage handling.
+the bootstrap must support contextual `&[]` literals for mutable slices and prefixed integer literals (`0b`, `0o`, `0x`); collection initialization uses contextual empty slices and AST flag masks use binary spelling. if the installed `bro` predates either feature, rebuild Bro with `make -C ../brolang build` and use `../brolang/build/brolang build`. zero-sized elements with nonzero logical lengths still use the memory module's specialized storage handling.
 
 run a source file with the interpreter:
 
diff --git a/source/ast/ast.hon b/source/ast/ast.hon
index 46c8086..097faa3 100644
--- a/source/ast/ast.hon
+++ b/source/ast/ast.hon
@@ -202,10 +202,10 @@ NodeData :: union {
     binary_operator BinaryOperator
 }
 
-@hide:file file_local_flag u8 :: 1
-@hide:file foreign_type_flag u8 :: 2
-@hide:file variadic_flag u8 :: 4
-@hide:file opaque_flag u8 :: 8
+@hide:file file_local_flag u8 :: 0b0001
+@hide:file foreign_type_flag u8 :: 0b0010
+@hide:file variadic_flag u8 :: 0b0100
+@hide:file opaque_flag u8 :: 0b1000
 
 @hide:file
 Node :: struct {