[Bf-committers] Expanding the number of layers in Blender

[David Bryant]

I'm currently going further in the development of named layers.Can anyone 
tell me why bit shifts are used to indicate and access layers in the Blender 
codebase? It makes the code inflexible. I'm going to rewrite the way Blender 
does this so as to be able to expand the number of layers.But, could anyone 
answer that question?
Hopefully, I'll be finished in a week.But,t he answer to that question will 
be helpful in the way I tackle the code.