On Saturday, January 21, 2012 23:07:17 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > On 21-01-2012 23:01, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > > This has been discussed before on this NG (I don't have the links to > > the discussions, sorry!) but additional aliases will not be added. > > You'll have to use what you have or introduce your own aliases in your > > code. > > Le sigh. Consistent, standardized names would have been really nice.
size_t comes from C/C++, and is exactly the same as it is in C++. In D, you know that if a type ends in _t, then its size can vary depending on the machine that you compile on, unlike all of the other primitive types. Maybe another name would have been better, but it works, and I think that most people who have been C/C++ programmers just don't care. The know size_t, and it works. At this point, given how much code would break from changing it, you would have to demonstrate that whatever name you came up with was really worth that cost, I realyl don't think that that's going to happen. - Jonathan M Davis
