Using notation for flags

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The left-shift operator (<<) can be used in flag enum declarations to ensure that each flag has exactly one 1 in binary representation, as flags should.

This also helps to improve readability of large enums with plenty of flags in them.

[Flags]
public enum MyEnum 
{
    None  = 0,
    Flag1 = 1 << 0,
    Flag2 = 1 << 1,
    Flag3 = 1 << 2,
    Flag4 = 1 << 3,
    Flag5 = 1 << 4,
    ...
    Flag31 = 1 << 30
}

It is obvious now that MyEnum contains proper flags only and not any messy stuff like Flag30 = 1073741822 (or 111111111111111111111111111110 in binary) which is inappropriate.

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