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Re: Conventions

Russ Rew wrote:

> One reason the issue of the type of valid_range keeps coming up is
> byte data type and the question of how to represent whether bytes are
> to be interpreted as signed or unsigned data.

Why is this exception made for byte data? Why not handle unsigned byte
data the same as you would unsigned short data? Conversely, why not allow
unsigned data for any integer data type?

Mark


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