On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:26:21 -0500, spir <denis.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/15/2011 02:36 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
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*)
Sure, but it's not the point of this one bikeshedding thread. If you do
that, then you're the only one who knows what "wordsize" means. Good,
maybe, for app-specific semantic notions (alias Employee[] Staff;);
certainly not for types at the highest degree of general purpose like
size_t. We need a standard alias.
The standard alias is size_t. If you don't like it, alias it to something
else. Why should I have to use something that's unfamiliar to me because
you don't like size_t?
I guarantee whatever you came up with would not be liked by some people,
so they would have to alias it, you can't please everyone. size_t works,
it has a precedent, it's already *there*, just use it, or alias it if you
don't like it.
No offense, but this discussion is among the most pointless I've seen.
-Steve
