Declaring SPECIFIC Variables?

[Anbang11]

I thought that this question were never asked, so....

Hey, I was wondering on how to declare specific variables for this problem:
I do not want to waste 32 bits, which is the capacity of int, ranging from -2147483648 to 2147483647, for holding (for instance) gear variable from 1 to 6 (can be sufficiently stored in byte, which has 8 bits, ranging from -127 to 128). Furthermore, I can also use unsigned byte, which has equal capacity of byte (8 bits), ranging from 0 to 255.

Yes, we can declare integer, but we cannot declare byte, short, int, and (possibly) long separately.
Yes, we can declare decimals, but we cannot declare float and double separately.
Can we declare these specific variables I've stated above? If yes, how?
Is it even possible to use unsigned and signed variable? If yes, how?

[Kilinich]

Why you want it? There is no need for that. Thyme is just script language.
There are following auto-assigned-types:

integer {a := 1}
float {a := 1.0}
boolean {a := true}
string {a := "1"}
procedure {a := {1+1}}
function {a := (x) => {1+x}}
list {a := [1,"1", true, {1}]}
object {a := scene.addBox({pos := [0,0]})}

In some cases automatic type conversion works ("a" + 1) will give string "a1" in result

[Anbang11]

Don't you see my problem I've wrote on the original post? What a pity having 2 billion numbers left unused just for holding small number.

[Kilinich]

Don't you see my problem I've wrote on the original post? What a pity having 2 billion numbers left unused just for holding small number.

That economy makes sense on large scale. For typical algodoo script data few megabytes is max of what you really need. So why bothering?

[Anbang11]

There isn't a way to declaring specific variables? That's okay.

[Kilinich]

There isn't a way to declaring specific variables? That's okay.

No, it's automatic from value.

[FRA32]

You dont really waste "2 billion numbers", you just "waste" a few mere byte, about 30. That may seem like a lot, but now imagine this:

30 bytes...
...of about 1028^3 bytes...

Quiiite a minority.