On 2/16/11 9:09 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:50:21 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
"Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message
module nick;
alias size_t wordsize;
Now you can use it anywhere, it's sooo freaking simple, I don't
understand the outrage.
But that is somewhat selfish. Given size_t causes dissatisfaction with a
lot of people, people will start create their won aliases and then you
end up having 5 different versions of it around. If this type is an
important one for writing architecture independent code that can take
advantage of architectural limits, then we better don't have 5 different
names for it in common code.
I don't think changing stuff like this should be distruptive. size_t can
be marked deprecated and could be removed in a future release, giving
people enough time to adapt.
Furthermore, with the 64-bit support in dmd approaching, this is the
time to do it, if ever.
