Am Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:31:31 +0900 schrieb Geoffrey Biggs <geoffrey.bi...@aist.go.jp>:
> Personally, I think that if I need to care about the data size/maximum > range of a value, I should be using a fixed-size data type rather than > specifying it in the value. The language typically supports me in > doing so without the need for prefixes except on rare occasions. > > Geoff Please! This is a different story. You talk about declaring best fit data types, something that Delphi has a good go on for integral types (numbers and enums): type TPercentValue : 0 .. 100; // cannot assign a value outside that range Just for the sake of clarification, the suffixes are there to disambiguate, since D - a little simplified - tries 32-bit types before 64-bit types and signed types before unsigned types; with no way to make a literal 8-bit or 16-bit for 'auto', function/method overloading or array type inference. -- Marco
