We hyphenate "fixed-length" earlier in the same sentence, and overall we
more often use "variable-length" rather than "variable length".
Nikolay Shaplov
internallength.
Base data types can be fixed-length, in which case
internallength is a
- positive integer, or variable length, indicated by setting
+ positive integer, or variable-length, indicated by setting
internallength
to VARIABLE. (Internally, this is represented
by setting typlen> to -1.) The internal representation of all