a signed short integer has a maximum value of 32,767
if they had decided to go with shorts from the get go (and quite possibly so, given memory management was still a big deal in 1999), they would be used shorts all over the code, and later converting every instance to 32 bit integers would have been 2 much effort and open to introducing bugs
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Originally Posted by Rogean
Looks like someone had a bit much to drink...
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