[Oberon] Negative integer literals in Oberon

[Joerg]

Yes.😊
As I wrote in an earlier email, if something is not clearly defined in the report I look at the compiler source to see what NW had in mind when he invented  and/or refined an idea. Even if its not documented in the report.

I mean: the idea that hex values are treated as unsigned values is more inline with the programmer’s expectation than a compiler issueing „too big“ for the value 0E0000000H.

Jörg

> Am 26.04.2020 um 18:27 schrieb August Karlstrom <fusionfile at gmail.com>:
> 
> On 2020-04-26 16:24, Jörg wrote:
>> In Oberon-07, you can write
>>   b := 0FFFFFFFFFFFFH;
>>   i := 0FFFFFFFFFFFFH;
>> the results are: b = 255 and i = -1.
> I think you mean "The compiler in Project Oberon accepts..."
> 
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