On 04/11/2011 10:10 AM, SimonM wrote:
On 2011/04/11 09:31 AM, spir wrote:
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?
I like the idea of removing all the different integer type names (byte, short,
int, long, cent) and replacing them with int8..int64 (I'd still prefer
uint8..uint64 though).
Then you could use just 'int' to specify using the current system's
architecture (and hopefully replace the ugly size_t type). I also think it
makes more sense to just use 'int' when you don't really care about the
specific size of the value. Unfortunately it would break backwards compatility
so it would never make it into D's current state.
Agreed. Same for uint or nat.
And no implicit cast, please ;-)
Denis
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