🚀 go-pugleaf

Peter Moylan wrote:
>
> Mark Morgan Lloyd (mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
> >
> > > neither does it do any sort of interpretation of the bits,
> > > ie. it's a straight copy of the bitmap, if you will..
> >
> > Watch it! I've argued this one in the past with TopSpeed, who IIRC
> > under certain circumstances _do_ apply transformations.

Mark's talking about BITSET, which should not do any sort of
transform.

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> Experienced programmers know - or should know - that there
> are two distinct categories of type conversion:

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> Unfortunately PIM lumps these two things together under the
> name "type transfer function", leaving the unsuspecting reader
> with the impression that they are the same thing.

I think the intention here was to make these things transparent to
the programmer. They are details that should not be of concern,
except at the hardware level, for which the non-portable BITSET,
BYTE, ADDRESS and WORD were defined.

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Ned