[DUG] integer or int64

[Rohit Gupta]

  I havent succeeded in doing that.  I find it very frustrating that the 
overload stuff does not distinguish between integer and int64.  It 
doesnt work for float and datetime either.  I have ended up having 
prefixes for the data type.

On 21/09/2010 11:08, John Bird wrote:
> Quite a few built in Delphi functions accept either integer or int64 as an
> argument, I checked into inttostr for instance, in that case its asm code.
>
> I have quite a few standard number processing routines, and up to now have
> done one version for integer, and another for int64.
>
> Is it feasible to have an argument/parameter to a function that can be
> either (like Delphi does)?
>
> is it possible to test whether such an argument is either integer or int64?
>
> Related - Does anyone know if an int128 is on the cards down the track?  (I
> have some functions that use numbers nearly up to int64 limit - 17 of the 18
> digits decimal length)
>
>
>
> John
>
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