Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!NewsWatcher!user From: Kolbjorn.Aambo@ub.uio.no (Kolbjørn Aambø) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: The signes, sizes and Endianness of Basic pattern Date: 3 Jan 1996 15:33:35 GMT Organization: University of Oslo Libray Lines: 28 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ubmac86.uio.no The signes, sizes and Endianness of Shunks: ------------------------------------------- Since Size and Signes of chars, Sizes of Integers and the fact that a shunk is Little or Big-endian is implicit and therefore making a lot of trouble I would very much like to know why this is not made explicit! Why not make such information explicit? Little Endian Size64 signed integer i; Big Endian Size64 unsigned integer j; Little Endian Unicode character t; Little Endian Unicode Text ut; I want this to be part of the standard so I dont have to make a lot of unneccesary code that is best kept in the compiler! Computer programming is not a way to employ as many as possible to solve the same uninteresting problems over and over and over! -- Kolbj|rn H. Aamb|, University of Oslo library/Bibliographic dept. N-0242 Oslo, Norway kolbjorn.aambo@ub.uio.no Phone: +47 22 85 91 36 ................................................................ They brought their books, the natives had their land, then... they got their land, the natives only books.