On 6/8/2013 2:23 PM, bearophile wrote:
- D integer types have guaranteed sizes, but
they're not obvious from the name
- Why not have int8, uint8, int32, uint32, etc. in
default namespace, encourage their use?
I agree. It's hard to guess the size and signedness of types as byte, ubyte,
wchar, dchar. I prefer names that are more clear.
It would only be a trivial problem for 5 minutes, only for ex-C/C++ programmers
who are used to suffering under variable sized ints, and will never be a problem
again.
Is it really a problem to guess the size of 'byte'? Or that 'ubyte' is unsigned?
Come on, bearophile!
And frankly, int32, long64, etc., have a large 'yech' factor for me.
Besides, if you really do want them,
import core.stdc.stdint;
