Bitwise AND, IF and a big WTF

So what's wrong with this code:

if (this._iDrawLayer & ChipsGame.VIEW_LAYER_A == ChipsGame.VIEW_LAYER_A) {
// draw contents of layer A ...
}

nothing, really. Nonetheless it's not working in CS3 (yet again, prove me wrong).

Basically it's just the unoptimized check if a certain bit is set or not. Let's do some traces:

trace ("with ():", ((this._iDrawLayer & ChipsGame.VIEW_LAYER_A) == ChipsGame.VIEW_LAYER_A))
trace ("without ():", (this._iDrawLayer & ChipsGame.VIEW_LAYER_A == ChipsGame.VIEW_LAYER_A))
trace ("values :", this._iDrawLayer & ChipsGame.VIEW_LAYER_A , ChipsGame.VIEW_LAYER_A)

The result is this:

with (): true
without (): 1
values: 1 1

Interesting, isn't it?
It seems like the compiler chains the & and the == for some reason that escapes me...

So if you get something undesiered with bitwise operators ... use ( and ) around it.

nGFX