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Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR]

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Ed wrote:
> I don't know of any computing language that handles simple numbers
> in the manner you are suggesting.

Well, people have had h# in Forth as opposed to the $ prefix.  But 
otherwise, yes, nobody has these prefixes for normal literals.

> Character literals are not numbers.

Yes, they are.  Even in C.  This compiles without any warning:

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
  char a=34;
  char b='+';
  printf("%c%c%c", a, b, 10);
  return 0;
}

Integer literals and character literals are interchangible, they have 
the same implicit data types (and propagation rules), and that's how it 
should be.  A character is just a code point in a code table (usually 
something the language already specifies, e.g. ASCII in the case of 
Forth), and the literal is either its numerical value or the character 
literal, and then it's a number.

So if everybody deals with character literals as if they were numbers, 
we can do so, too.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-03-11 06:10 -0400
  Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-11 06:03 -0500
  Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2012-03-11 13:09 +0100
    Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-03-12 19:43 -0400
      Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-12 16:22 -1000
        Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-13 03:23 -0700
        Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2012-03-13 12:51 +0000
  Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2012-03-11 17:11 +0000
    Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Jean-Bernard Faucon <jb@nospam.com> - 2012-03-11 21:34 +0100
    Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-03-12 10:45 +0000
  Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-03-11 13:57 -0700
  Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-03-11 17:06 -0400
    Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2012-03-11 21:38 +0000
      Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-11 14:12 -1000
    Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-03-11 18:42 -0700
    Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-12 11:13 +0000
      Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-03-12 19:46 -0400
        Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-12 16:56 -1000
  Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Ed" <nospam@invalid.com> - 2012-03-14 16:35 +1100
    Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-03-14 08:49 -0700
      Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Ed" <nospam@invalid.com> - 2012-03-15 12:29 +1100
        Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-03-15 04:11 -0400
          Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2012-03-15 10:24 +0000
            Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-15 06:23 -0500
              Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-03-15 12:05 +0000
                Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-15 08:19 -0500
          Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Ed" <nospam@invalid.com> - 2012-03-17 13:17 +1100
            Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-03-17 15:13 +0000
              Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-18 06:07 -0500
              Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Ed" <nospam@invalid.com> - 2012-03-18 23:01 +1100
                Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-03-18 15:21 +0000
                Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-03-18 23:15 +0100
        Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-03-15 11:59 +0000
    Re: Question on CHAR and [CHAR] "Ed" <nospam@invalid.com> - 2012-03-15 12:29 +1100

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