bearophile wrote:
The wchar/dchar are short names, easy to write, but for me and a person I've shown/taught D it doesn't result easy to remember their size in bytes. "w" stands for wide, "d" for double, this is easy to remember. But how wide is wide? That's why I have suggested to adopt more descriptive names for them.
The wchar and dchar stem from the popular WORD and DWORD sizes on the x86 platforms. wchar_t is of course "wide character" for C, and is often used for UTF-16 at least on Windows platforms.
Confusingly, wchar_t on Linux is 32 bits.
