32-bit integer operations

32-bit integer operations

[Chet Murthy]

Hmmm ..... perhaps I've lost my mind.

I decided to use 32-bit integers (int32) for some operations in a
program today, and I was about to code something which required me to
do a comparison between two of them, and ... I can't figure out how to
do it.

That is, there isn't any comparison operator defined.  I suppose I
could code one up, using various primitives, but I figured I'd point
this out, in the hope that somebody could slap me upside the head and
point me at the officially-blessed way of doing this.

In the absence of such indications, I guess I'll just code one up.

Cheers,
--chet--

Re: 32-bit integer operations

[Gerd Stolpmann]

On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Chet Murthy wrote:
>Hmmm ..... perhaps I've lost my mind.
>
>I decided to use 32-bit integers (int32) for some operations in a
>program today, and I was about to code something which required me to
>do a comparison between two of them, and ... I can't figure out how to
>do it.
>
>That is, there isn't any comparison operator defined.  I suppose I
>could code one up, using various primitives, but I figured I'd point
>this out, in the hope that somebody could slap me upside the head and
>point me at the officially-blessed way of doing this.

Simply use <, <=, >, >=, =, <>. They work perferctly for int32 (as for all core
types of the language).

gerd
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