At 12:24 PM 10/25/2001 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At 08:59 AM 10/25/2001 -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > >> Then we probably should change Parrot's name of BOOL. I'd > >> suggest Bool_t, modeled after perl5's Size_t (and similar "types"). > > > Sounds like a good idea. > >IIRC, all types ending in _t are reserved by POSIX and may be used without >warning in later versions of the standard. (This comes up not >infrequently in some of the groups I read, but I unfortunately don't have >a copy of POSIX to check for myself and be sure.)
Ah, good point. Maybe we should go with _p as a suffix rather than _t. (the p for parrot, of course) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk