In our previous episode, m2 said: > > instead, it is not possible (without violating the spirit of the Pascal > > language > > The fact that Borland regarded "$FF..FF" as a 2's complement > representation and not as a base-16 representation of an integer is > not really what I would call "Pascal spirit". As a matter of fact, > "Borland mess" would be more appropriate. :-)
Hmm, I'd say it is Pascal spirit to have a signed base type. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
