2 Basic Patterns

The BETA book defines the following basic patterns: boolean, char, integer, and real. To support different sizes of integers and characters, a number of new basic patterns have been introduced. The following table shows the current basic patterns of BETA and their representation.

int8
signed 8-bit integer
int8u
unsigned 8-bit integer
int16
signed 16-bit integer
int16u
unsigned 8-bit integers (replaces pattern shortInt)
int32
signed 32-bit integer (identical to integer)
int32u
unsigned 32-bit integer
integer
signed 32-bit integer (identical to int32
char
8-bit ASCII character
wchar
16-bit UniCode character
boolean
boolean value true or false
real
64-bit floating point number

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