Am Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:51:57 +0200 schrieb "Daniel" <wyr...@gmx.net>:
> On Sunday, 8 July 2012 at 13:49:50 UTC, bearophile wrote: > > This seems a bit overkill to me: > > > > It's also possible to avoid any type ambiguity by writing > > integer literals with a suffix. The suffixes i and u are for > > the types int and uint, respectively: the literal -3i has type > > int, while 127u has type uint. For the fixed-size integer > > types, just suffix the literal with the type name: 255u8, > > 50i64, etc. > > > > Many good ideas... am just singling out this one, as you seem to > be of a different opinion in this particular case... I on the > contrary wish D would have taken this route as well, because of > the ubiquitous 'auto' and 'implicit template instantiation' > features... furthermore vector simd types could also benefit. Yes, this is the single most important Rust feature to me when typing. I've just had too many cases of mass-casts to ubyte or short where a suffix to the literal would only have cost one or two letters. 255ub = byte, 32000s = short -- Marco