Actually the answer to my question is that there is no such thing as an integer in xTalk. Any string which could be a number which seems to act like an integer is a binary real which has an exact decimal representation during computation. You can't define a range for an integer if your language does not have the concept of type.
What I was trying to say is that an integer to a lot of people is a whole number in the range of +/- infinity. If they add zero to a large integer and the result is another large integer they are upset. Just like those people who summed ten tenths and didn't get one. This isn't a large problem in the since that most xTalk programmers aren't going to be writing programs where they will encounter these situations. The large problem I see is if an xTalk were ones first language one would be ignorant of computer numerics. michael Rob Cozens of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on 4/6/02 10:32 AM >> One problem is what is an integer? >> > > I would define an integer as any non-decimal number within the range > of numbers supported by the interpreter. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
