[Corelinux-develop] Changes to Types

[Frank V. C. <fr...@co...>]

On a back and forth discussion with C., we jived about storage and type
derivations. Needless to say, it became apparent that with data member
specification enabled in macros for MetaType access, the solution over
storage and semantics disolved.

I bring to attention the semantics of Numbers, Integers, and RealNumbers

Number
	Integer
		ShortInteger
	RealNumber

is the new class hierarchy (and the MetaType ontology follows this). So
Integer isA Number, ShortInteger isA Integer and they have no semantic
association with RealNumber other then being a Number.

For the accessor/mutator and storage issue:

Integer	defines a 32 bit signed value (theValue)
ShortInteger accessor/mutator coerces a short in and out using the
get/set macros with the extension of re-using the base classes storage
area.

This is all checked in.

Thoughts?

PS: To build the 0.2.1 version I have tagged it rel-0-2-1. The above
changes are 0.2.2 bound (as yet not tagged).

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