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
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