LS> Why, then, is there no such ambiguity for the Word/SmallInt types 
 LS> (SmallInt is what used to be Integer in BP7 - Integer is 32-bit now)? I 
 LS> can't imagine that there could be such an ambiguity for 32-bit numbers 
 LS> and not for 16-bit ones. 
I don't know exactly, but I thought I remember some discussion
about this before.  Back when everything was 16-bit, TP didn't
have the "word" type - only the 16-bit integer.  When the CPUs
got where they could handle 32-bit integers, TP acquired 32-bit
signed integers and 16-bit unsigned integers (word).
Jud McCranie
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