According to Frank Heckenbach:

And something I just noticed concerning "Word" (this is addressed more to Peter ;-) :

A "machine word" in the sense of assembly language actually describes the *size* of data and not whether it's signed or unsigned, doesn't it? (Data in asm are neither signed nor unsigned per se, it depends on which operations are used on them.) So from the original meaning (in PC real mode) "Word = 16 bits", Borland made "Word = 16 bits unsigned", and now you seem to be making "Word = unsigned" out of it...

Now you have got me! (-:

Okay, so GPC will have `FooInt' for signed, `FooCard' for unsigned integer types, and `FooWord' for types where we don't care about signedness (and which are in fact unsigned).

These are many Integer types for GPC - much more than in BP. So let's hope that this will lead to clear programming, not to confusion ...

Peter

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