On 2/17/11 8:56 AM, Denis Koroskin wrote:
I second that. word/uword are shorter than ssize_t/size_t and more in line with other type names.I like it.
I agree that size_t/ptrdiff_t are misnomers and I'd love to kill them with fire, but when I read about »word«, I intuitively associated it with »two bytes« first – blame Intel or whoever else, but the potential for confusion is definitely not negligible.
David
