[Oberon] Clarifying type compatibility in Oberon-07
August Karlstrom
fusionfile at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 09:24:48 CEST 2017
On 2017-10-05 00:10, Andreas Pirklbauer wrote:
> 3. Oberon-07 also introduced the type BYTE as a subrange of INTEGER (0
> .. 255). The intent was to prevent the frequent abuse of module SYSTEM
> for type conversions using SYSTEM.VAL and the type CHAR for small
> numbers.
The BYTE type is also needed when reading binary data, something which
shouldn't require using the SYSTEM module.
-- August
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