C Western wrote:
The following innocuous looking code generates a range check error:
The code shouldn't generate a range check error, as the target type is signed.
Note that Oberon was designed by Niklaus Wirth specifically to prevent this kind of problems. See
the notes on type inclusion in section A.4.4 of An introduction to Oberon-2
<http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~claire/Oberon.pdf>
Apple has never heard of type inclusion or even range checking and is arbitrarily mixing signed and
unsigned types.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os
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