Why do we use: int led = 13; instead of byte led = 13; If you would never need to define more than 256 pins, why use the extra space for int? Is there a reason? Thanks.

Why use int instead of byte for pin numbers?

Osgeld February 25, 2013, 6:14am 2

I always use byte for values less than 255

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