Silly question: Negative object keys...

[Michael Pokraka]

Hi all,
A workaround is easy enough, so this is purely academic Monday/Tuesday tr=
ivia:
 
I have an object with a numeric key and wanted to use a negative number. =
No
can do says this 620 system, a NUMC doesn't permit a minus sign.
 
Trying to give an INT-type field as a reference results in:
"Only ABAP data types C, N, D and T are permitted as key fields"
 
OK, ... type N obviously refers to NUMC as I couldn't fit any other suita=
ble
field types in there. Type N should allow negatives... or maybe not. The
simple workaround is obviously to use a CHAR and fill it with whatever...
but doing that is a bit ... well, not 'proper'.
 
Anyway, not important... just curious.
 
Cheers
Mike