On 08/12/2011 08:32 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-08-12 20:16, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/12/2011 8:52 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
it's a practice that many
people don't seem to follow (in both C/C++ and D), since it's so
natural to
use int (or auto in D),

Back in the olden days of C, it was "best practice" to use int as an
index. Times have changed, but old habits die hard.

Just out of curiosity, why was that?


Probably because of this:
for(unsigned int i=0;i<n;i++){}    // ok
for(unsigned int i=n-1;i>=0;i--){} // bam!

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