On 1/21/2012 7:03 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, January 21, 2012 21:54:37 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
It wouldn't have to change, just have a better name added. No reason
'size_t', et al, couldn't still be kept for compatibility.
Except that we're generally against keeping around alias cruft like that
except temporarily as part of a deprecation path, so that doesn't usually fly.
Certainly, it means that if you want that to happen, you'd then have to be
able to come up with a name and arguments for it which justified having two
standard aliases for the same thing.
I agree with Jonathan. Two names for the same thing just blows.
