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

Notes:

Pattern shortint will be eliminated and should no longer be used.
Pattern wchar will eventually replace pattern char. I.e. characters will in the future be represented as 16-bit UniCode characters.

BETA Language Modifications - Reference Manual

[Modified: Sunday October 22^nd 2000 at 0:53]