On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:33:48 +0000 Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> 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. > > size_t is not too bad, it's not as alien as you may think as > there is also std.stdint. > > http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdint.html ah, nobody uses that, and it's not even documented. a forgotten leftover. > Personally i don't have any issue with the naming as long as i > know what each type represents. i can remember that too, but i prefer to have the things that i can logically deduce. i can deduce `usize`: "ah, it's size. and it's unsigned. D tends to add 'u' for unsigned types and naming 'size' as 'size' is logical. so it must be 'usize'. hit!" i can't do that for `size_t`, though. the only thing i can do with it is to remeber it. and i'm very bad in remembering nonsensical things.
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