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The only problem I has is I think in term of bytes, not number of digits. 1, 2, 4, 8 byte integers are second place to me. Ask me how many digits 8 bytes are and I do do the old... 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256... speel and start to get a headache around 131070 and have to start using a calculator. Regards, Jim Langston -----Original Message----- From: Hans Boldt [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com] Consistency with what other languages? DDS? That uses number of digits. Java? Like C, it uses keywords like "int" and "long". REXX, Perl, or Python? Heck, they don't even have variable declarations! No, the current syntax is just something you have to learn and get used to, just like any other language feature, or any feature of any other language. Changing course in mid-stream without a good reason would only add confusion. It really is mainly an issue of "half a dozen of one, six of the other". Cheers! Hans
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