4 Aug
2010
4 Aug
'10
1:33 p.m.
Am 04.08.2010 15:18, schrieb cbfalconer@yahoo.com:
Quoting "Prof. Harley Flanders" harley@umich.edu:
It is also time for more accurate integers. Borland introduced Int64 10-20 years ago, and it has remained the standard highest accuracy integer type.
This plethora of names is totally unnecessary. Pascal simply has a maxint value, which specifies the accuracy available.
One might not want maxint being a signed 64 bit value on 32 bit systems due to performance reasons neither growing integer to 64 bit.
When an integral type is specified, it normally has a range. That range is used to specify the integer size used.
int64 is not a "complete" ordinal type in the pascal sense.