On Nov 14, 2024 at 8:11:53 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> Because it wasn't deemed necessary that the compiler itself provides this
> operator.
>
You can use it to create ordinal types from bytes using a generic. I was
trying to do something like this. If you do other operations on constants
it makes to include powers too. Of course you can solve this a number of
other ways too but I preferred this one.
type
SomeInt<const A, B: Byte> = record
header: 0..(256**A) - 1;
footer: 0..(256**B) - 1;
end;
SomeInt<4, 3>
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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