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5.2 Standard modes ¶

Mode: void ¶

The only value of this mode is empty.

Mode: bool ¶

Mode for the boolean truth values true and false.

Mode: l int ¶

Modes for signed integral values. Each long or short may increase or decrease the range of the domain, depending on the characteristics of the current target. Further longs and shorts may be specified with no effect.

Mode: l real ¶

Modes for signed real values. Each long may increase the upper range of the domain, depending on the characteristics of the current target. Further longs may be specified but with no effect.

Mode: char ¶

Mode for character values. The character values are mapped one-to-one to code points in the 21-bit space of Unicode.

Mode: string = flex[1:0]char ¶

Mode for sequences of characters. This is implemented as a flexible row of char values.

Mode: l compl = struct (real re,im) ¶

Modes for complex values. Each long may increase the precision of both the real and imaginary parts of the numbers, depending on the characteristics of the current target. Further longs may be specified with no effect.

Mode: l bits ¶

Compact and efficient representation of a row of boolean values. Each long may increase the number of booleans that can be packed in a bits, depending on the characteristics of the current target.

Mode: l bytes ¶

Compact and efficient representation of a row of character values. Each long may increase the number of characters that can be packed in a bytes, depending on the characteristics of the current target.