<html><head><base href="x-msg://938/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Please hold off on mainline changes. I don't think we have reached consensus yet...</div><div><br></div><div>The issue remains: mixed arithmetic + checked assignability or not? I'm leaning towards allowing it, but want to hear from others.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="'Gill Sans'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><br></font></font></div><div><div>On 8 Jan 2010, at 21:16, Jay K wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Still need a branch for longint changes?<br> I doubt what I have is where we are going, though it is a step toward it.<br> Just wait for Tony to implement Rodney's proposal?<br> Or I work on it in a branch? It doesn't look too difficult to at least mostly do. I already have "mixed" stuff compiling and assignability INTEGER to LONGINT. I didn't yet do anything requiring runtime checks, but it's not that hard to do, given that there are already checks for assignment involving only partly overlapping ranges.<br><br>Or maybe just take my stuff to the mainline and then refine/reduce it later?<br><br> - Jay<br><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>