[Oberon] CHAR to/from BYTE conversion

Skulski, Wojciech skulski at pas.rochester.edu
Fri Jul 8 20:50:06 CEST 2016


> That means both CHAR and BYTE holds values 0 to 255.

> No, CHAR holds characters, 0X to 0FFX, including "A", "B" etc.; and BYTE
> holds 0 to 255, a sub-range of the INTEGER range.

> Your statement is indicative of how much damage C has done to the world :)

Characters should not be just English characters. 

Your statement is indicative of how much damage ASCII has done to the world :)

W.


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