[M3devel] 64bit INTEGERs, WIDECHAR: language specified or configuration/target dependent?

[mika at async.caltech.edu]

Elmar Stellnberger writes:
...
>I would have loved it to make INTEGER =3D BITS 32 FOR INTEGER and to =
>allow
>BITS 64 for INTEGER at the same time. However the way we have already =
>gone is
>to make LONGINT an own type with an own suffix like floats (the 'l' =
>suffix). More
>strictly typed and not so bad either.=

Ah yes, LONGINT.

I remain strongly opposed to that.  I think it was a big mistake, it
runs completely counter to Modula-3 design philosophy.  INTEGERs are
integers are integers are integers...  fm: Command not found.

    Mika