I see what you mean... I thought it was an Integer because If you do something
like:
Writeln({$I %DATEMONTH%}+'/'+{$I %DATEDAY%}+'/'+{$I %DATEYEAR%});
You get Error: Operator is not overloaded: "ShortInt" + "Char"
But that's not what it is.... it's just like typing in hard coded numbers
after it's compiled.. because you can do things like
Writeln('{$I %DATEMONTH%}'+'/');
And you wouldn't be able to do that with variables or any type... so it's
really not any variable type, it's just numeric text being inserted.
I don't really know what to call it, but integer seems to indicate it has a
type, so I agree it should be distinguished from any specific variable type.
James
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