On 2011-08-13 00:08, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/12/2011 11:32 AM, 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?
1. size_t didn't exist
2. sizeof(int) == sizeof(pointer) pretty much everywhere
3. Signed indices meant you could index backwards
4. K+R used 'int' as an index everywhere
Ok, I see, thanks for the reply.
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/Jacob Carlborg
