Walter: > Short and byte have many decades of use being 16 bits and 8 bits. I don't > know > anyone who is confused by this.
"byte" and "ubyte" names sometimes cause problems because bytes are usually unsigned values: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte >The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no >definitive standards exist that mandate the size. The de facto standard of >eight bits is a convenient power of two permitting the values 0 through 255 >for one byte.< This is a (minor) wart of D. C# got this better, using the "sbyte" and "ubyte" names. We have discussed this in past :-) When I program in D, I take care of keeping often in my mind that "int" is not an integer number, but a unchecked signed 2-complement 32-bits-wide bit field. Forgetting it causes several bugs and troubles. Bye, bearophile
