Hello Jud!
Thursday July 24 1997, Jud McCranie writes to Martin Maat:
 JM> I don't believe it could be for performance reasons.  Maybe
 JM> there is some ambiguity in a combination of operations as to
 JM> what type numbers are promoted to, and not having 32-bit
 JM> unsigned avoids that potential ambiguity.
Why, then, is there no such ambiguity for the Word/SmallInt types (SmallInt 
is what used to be Integer in BP7 - Integer is 32-bit now)? I can't imagine 
that there could be such an ambiguity for 32-bit numbers and not for 16-bit 
ones.
Lars
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