On 04/11/2011 02:42 AM, bearophile wrote:
I and Don have asked (in Bugzilla and elsewhere) to change the built-in names
into sbyte and ubyte, to avoid the common confusions between signed and
unsigned bytes in D, but Walter was deaf to this.
I think a good naming scheme would be:
* signed : int8 .. int64
* unsigned : nat8 .. nat64
(since "natural number" more or less means "unsigned integer number") already.
What do you think?
or counting in octets:
* signed : int1 .. int8
* unsigned : nat1 .. nat8
(I prefere the latter naming scheme in absolute, but it would be confusing
because some languages --and LLVM, I guess-- count in bits.)
Denis
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