Am 29.03.2016 17:27 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>: > > On 2016-03-29 16:13, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > Cardinal is the Wirthian designation for the default unsigned integer, > > just like "integer" is for signed. > > Thanks Marco, that fulfils my curiosity. :) > > > On a side note: > The reason I asked this question. I'm working on code with many Record > types with fields of type Word, Smallint etc, than then some Cardinal > fields got mixed in too. I would normally use LongWord instead of > Cardinal to keep to a consistent naming convention. But from your > comments Cardinal has a long history in Pascal.
I usually use LongWord, too, but with the recent discovery that in Delphi LongWord is not always 32-bit (and my tendency to confuse Short and SmallInt) I'm inclined to use the (U)IntX (with X being a element of [8, 16, 32, 64]) types to avoid any confusion and surprises. Regards, Sven
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