[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/3838 Oops! I was using Reload.rli* constants instead of Reload.rlt* constants

[Mike Caron]

On 10/7/2010 1:00, Mike Caron wrote:
> On 10/7/2010 0:56, James Paige wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 09:55:07PM -0700,
>> subversion at HamsterRepublic.com wrote:
>>> james
>>> 2010-10-06 21:55:07 -0700 (Wed, 06 Oct 2010)
>>> 74
>>> Oops! I was using Reload.rli* constants instead of Reload.rlt*
>>> constants!
>
> Ha ha ha! You feel for my devious trap!
>
>
> ...
>
> Honestly, though, I probably could have come up with a better name.
> And/or not put them in reload.bi, since they don't belong there.
>
>> Could anybody explain the difference between these to me? I see that the
>> rlt constants only have one integer type, what is the purpose of the rli
>> constants and their small multitude of different integer types?
>
> rli (ReLoad Internal) are the types as stored on disk. Those constants
> are only used during loading/saving.
>
> rlt (ReLoad Types) are the logical types as seen by clients (number,
> string, etc). They correspond to the GetInteger(), etc functions.

Also, just looking at the editor's code, I noticed that you cap integers 
to be 16-bit signed. Is this a function of the grabber not supporting 
higher, or something else (since, RELOAD supports up to 64-bit integers)?

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