On Monday 11 November 2013 10:02:39 Michael Schnell wrote: > On 11/08/2013 05:32 PM, Martin Schreiber wrote: > > Or ord8, ord16, ord32, ord64, int8, int16, int32, int64? > > So why invent new names instead of using the really well known names > such as "uint8_t", "int16_t" .... > Because if there is a "u" for unsigned there must be a "s" for signed (orthogonality). But "int" is already signed (as Sieghard pointed out) so "sint" is bad.
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