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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Conversion from floating point to signed 16 bits
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 08:23:09 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 20, 4:18=A0pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@nospam.acm.org> wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>
> > Or better - just use package Interfaces instead...
>
> No. Interfaces.Unsigned_16 is a modular type. The OP's Unsigned_16 is a s=
igned
> integer type.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "English bed-wetting types."
> Monty Python & the Holy Grail
> 15

So it is!!

A rather poorly named type then...tricky to think of a better name
though - perhaps the Interfaces names should have been Modular_16 /
etc. Too late now...back to Int16 and Uint16 it is then...

Cheers
-- Martin