On Wed Mar 9 02:11:21 EST 2011, fors...@terzarima.net wrote: > >ah, that's the c type system. > > not exactly: ansi changed it. > the original one had unsigned as an attribute that remained despite changes > of word length. > ansi changed it for various reasons to `value preserving' from `unsigned > preserving'.
i was meckering about the current state of affairs, not casting aspersions on the original. - erik
