[fpc-pascal] {$include %dateyear%}

[James Richters]

I see what you mean... I thought it was an Integer because If you do something like:
Writeln({$I %DATEMONTH%}+'/'+{$I %DATEDAY%}+'/'+{$I %DATEYEAR%});
You get Error: Operator is not overloaded: "ShortInt" + "Char"   

But that's not what it is.... it's  just like typing in hard coded numbers after it's compiled.. because you can do things like
Writeln('{$I %DATEMONTH%}'+'/'); 
And you wouldn't be able to do that with variables or any type... so it's really not any variable type, it's just numeric text being inserted.

I don't really know what to call it, but integer seems to indicate it has a type, so I agree it should be distinguished from any specific variable type.

James