On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 03:48:17 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
i can remember that too, but i prefer to have the things that i
can
logically deduce. i can deduce `usize`: "ah, it's size. and it's
unsigned. D tends to add 'u' for unsigned types and naming
'size' as
'size' is logical. so it must be 'usize'. hit!"
Size is unsigned for being positive. Why emphasize it again? 'u'
prefix is for general purpose integers, size_t is a special
purpose type for specific case of representing sizes, similar
types are time_t, off_t and hash_t in a sense that representation
can change, but purpose will remain the same.
