On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 01:30:35 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Hello.
i don't like `size_t`. for many month i avoied using it
wherever that
was possible, 'cause i feel something wrong with it. and today
i found
the soultion!
let's see how other D types are named: `int`, `uint`, `byte`
(oh, well,
this name sux), `ulong`. see the pattern? so i decided to rename
`size_t` to `usize`. and you know what? it immidiately started
to be
familiar. like a thing that was always here, simply dressed in
patches.
let's face it: that ugly '_t' is alien to D. this is an ugly
leftover
from C, and this leftover is nonsence. it will not really help
anyone,
but it immideately turns D code to badly-looking crap. see for
yourself:
size_t countSomeElements();
and
usize countSomeElements();
`size_t` looking like an alien here, ruining all the style.
i propose to introduce `usize` and `sptrdiff` along with those
'_t'
uglyness, and then slowly migrate all the code to the new names.
yes, this is another "cosmetic issue", but let me tell you that
such
"purely cosmetic things" are really important for those who just
starting to learn the language.
it's impossible to write nice D code with `size_t`: we have
either
alias it each time or use `uint`/`ulong` to make our code looks
good.
really, i've seen people who using `uint` instead of `size_t`,
'cause
"with size_t my code looks ugly, and i tired of aliasing that
shit
every time". ah, yep, their code sux for 64 bits, but: "i know
that
64-bit size_t is... 64-bit. i'll fix that later, maybe."
uglyness leads to bad code. let's kill `size_t` for good!
p.s. some of you may think that i'm trolling. i can assure you
that
this post is not trolling, this is just another try to talk
about
"purely cosmetic issues" and how they hurts the language,
especially
for beginners. when beginner see such "pure cosmetic issue", he
starting to think that the whole language is a mess: "hey, this
is such
easy to fix, but they never bother to... i bet the other parts
of the
language are even worse." and you know what? it's enough to
make such
mistake two or three times to make people believe that D is a
"dirty
and hackish language without clear style". "this is uuuugly" is
*the*
*argument*.
I would like if usize wasn't implictly convertable to uint or
ulong
