"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > 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. >
I think that's why I never had a problem with wchar/dchar. I've dealt with x86 WORD/DWORD. Though I guess that also indicates why other people may find it unintuitive, not everyone has gone low-level like that.
