On 17.02.2011 9:09, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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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.
Tell that Intel guys, their assembler syntax (read most x86 assemblers)
uses size prefixes word (2 bytes!), dword (4bytes), qword (8) etc.
And if that was only assembler syntax issue...
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Dmitry Olshansky
