Jonathan M Davis:
and it's primarily been Walter who hasn't wanted it on the grounds that it's more consistent as it is
Consistency is a good thing to have, but if adhering to it causes bugs and troubles, and if the symmetry breakage causes readable compile-time errors, then it's often a good idea to do it. D language contains plenty of situations where this happens (and arguably few more cases should be added, like the sbyte/ubyte pair of names breaking the consistency of name/uname naming scheme for the other integral types, to avoid people think all the time that a byte is unsigned).
Bye, bearophile
