On 11/08/2013 12:08 AM, Sieghard wrote: > You might opt to spell it out as "integer", I think. (Didn't you set > out to recreate a _Pascal_ compiler? Then that's how it is spelled by > these.)
I vote for not using any type name that has been abused in the passed by different pascal dialects (e.g. String, ANSIString, UnicodeString, and Integer (being either 32 or 64 bit), but define unambiguous "honest" type names. In fact int (as know from C) is ambiguous, as well, and should not be used. the well known unambiguous arch independent names used by the Open source C community are uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t, uint64_t, int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, int64_t, I vote for using same as the built-in names. Additionally usually the headers define "fast" types, that use _at_least_ as many bits as denoted and are alias for the smallest fitting preferred type in the targeted arch. In Pascal, the user can always recreate the Types names he dersrires by a simple "Type" statement. -Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
