"KennyTM~" <kenn...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ijghne$ts1$1...@digitalmars.com... > On Feb 16, 11 11:49, Michel Fortin wrote: >> On 2011-02-15 22:41:32 -0500, "Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> said: >> >>> I like "nint". >> >> But is it unsigned or signed? Do we need 'unint' too? >> >> I think 'word' & 'uword' would be a better choice. I can't say I'm too >> displeased with 'size_t', but it's true that the 'size_t' feels out of >> place in D code because of its name. >> >> > > 'word' may be confusing to Windows programmers because in WinAPI a 'WORD' > means an unsigned 16-bit integer (aka 'ushort'). > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc230402(v=PROT.10).aspx
That's just a legacy issue from when windows was mainly on 16-bit machines. "Word" means native size.
