On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:58:17 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1650.1297733226.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com...
On Monday, February 14, 2011 17:06:43 spir wrote:
Rename size-t, or rather introduce a meaningful standard alias? (would
vote
for Natural)
Why? size_t is what's used in C++. It's well known and what lots of
programmers
would expect What would you gain by renaming it?
Although I fully realize how much this sounds like making a big deal out
of
nothing, to me, using "size_t" has always felt really clumsy and
awkward. I
think it's partly because of using an underscore in such an otherwise
short
identifier, and partly because I've been aware of size_t for years and
still
don't have the slightest clue WTF that "t" means. Something like
"wordsize"
would make a lot more sense and frankly feel much nicer.
And, of course, there's a lot of well-known things in C++ that D
deliberately destroys. D is a different language, it may as well do
things
better.
Hey, bikeshedders, I found this cool easter-egg feature in D! It's called
alias! Don't like the name of something? Well you can change it!
alias size_t wordsize;
Now, you can use wordsize instead of size_t in your code, and the compiler
doesn't care! (in fact, that's all size_t is anyways *hint hint*)
;)
-Steve
