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Revision: 12805
          http://harbour-project.svn.sourceforge.net/harbour-project/?rev=12805&view=rev
Author:   vszakats
Date:     2009-11-01 10:43:15 +0000 (Sun, 01 Nov 2009)

Log Message:
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2009-11-01 11:35 UTC+0100 Viktor Szakats (harbour.01 syenar.hu)
  * include/hbdefs.h
    + Added new planned types. These are meant to replace previous 
      proposition with the format 'hb<Type>'. New ones use usual 
      'HB_<TYPE>' format. Also added HB_TRUE and HB_FALSE.
      These new names don't look alien at all in code, so hopefully 
      we can go into the transition with more courage. As a plus, 
      some of the HB_TYPE format types are already implemented and 
      used (HB_WCHAR, HB_LONG, HB_ULONG, etc).
      A new important type is HB_SIZE, which I hope will replace 
      ULONG for string and array indices.
    * Changed HB_CHAR to be declared as 'char' instead of 'BYTE'.
      (this type was added long ago, but is not yet used anywhere 
      in code)
    * Changed HB_COLOR to be declared as 'int' instead of 'BYTE'.
      (this type was added long ago, but is not yet used anywhere 
      in code, since then we've settled to 'int' to represent 
      colors. Pbly we should move to use this abstract type instead 
      of int in code.)
    ; I left hb<Type> code as of yet, but if there is no objection, 
      I'd like to remove them.
    ; Here are the new types:

      HB_TRUE
      HB_FALSE
      HB_BOOL
      HB_BYTE
      HB_CHAR
      HB_ULONG
      HB_LONG
      HB_UINT
      HB_SHORT
      HB_USHORT
      HB_LONGLONG
      HB_ULONGLONG
      HB_I8
      HB_U8
      HB_I16 ( HB_I16_MIN, HB_I16_MAX )     
      HB_U16 ( HB_U16_MAX )
      HB_I32 ( HB_I32_MIN, HB_I32_MAX )
      HB_U32 ( HB_U32_MAX )            
      HB_I64 ( HB_I64_MIN, HB_I64_MAX )
      HB_U64 ( HB_U64_MAX )            
      HB_SCHAR
      HB_UCHAR
      HB_SIZE
      HB_DOUBLE

    ; QUESTION: Do we really need 3 different flavors to denote char/byte?
                HB_BYTE - HB_UCHAR - HB_U8
                HB_CHAR - HB_SCHAR - HB_I8
                If not, we should decide which ones to keep.
                If yes, it would be nice to have some guide when to use which.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/harbour/ChangeLog
    trunk/harbour/include/hbdefs.h


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