Numeric Types

[Michael Lazzaro]

Does someone from internals want to take on the task of finalizing this list? We need to decide if we want to support none, some, or all of these types/aliases.

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The Full List of Numeric Types

In addition to the standard int and num, there are a great number of other numeric types available. If your program makes use of code written in other languages, such as C, C++, Java, C#, etc., or if you want your program to make use of low-level system or library calls, you will frequently need to use more exact types that correspond to what the other language expects to see. You might also wish to use the more specific primitive types when you can guarantee certain bounds restrictions on numbers, and simply want to squeeze every unnecessary byte out of the generated code.

# (TEMPORARY) need final list of numeric types & any aliased names,
# assuming we don't want to support *all* of these names (tho we could)

# the base numeric type

numeric

# signed integers

int
int8 char
int16 short short_int
int32 long long_int
int64 quad long_long long_long_int

# unsigned integers

bit
uint u_int
uint8 u_int8 u_char byte
uint16 u_int16 u_short u_short_int
uint32 u_int32 u_long u_long_int
uint64 u_int64 u_quad u_long_long u_long_long_int

# floating point numbers

num
float
double
long_double


Each of these(?) has a matching promoted type, which starts with a capital letter instead of a lowercase letter (e.g. Int vs. int, Num vs. num.)

MikeL