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Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> schrieb:

[unsigned]

> We use it exclusively for datatypes in the domain [0, 2**n).  It's always
> compared against other unsigned variables or constants.   Works quite well.
> Safer and cleaner than willy-nilly using int.

The proposal for adding an unsigned data type to Fortran, which
I initiated and which I am currently implementing for gfortran,
does exactly that - no comparisions of signed vs. unsigned without
explicit conversion (and no arithmetic either).