"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 1/21/2012 7:03 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> On Saturday, January 21, 2012 21:54:37 Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> It wouldn't have to change, just have a better name added. No reason >>> 'size_t', et al, couldn't still be kept for compatibility. >> >> Except that we're generally against keeping around alias cruft like that >> except temporarily as part of a deprecation path, so that doesn't usually >> fly. >> Certainly, it means that if you want that to happen, you'd then have to >> be >> able to come up with a name and arguments for it which justified having >> two >> standard aliases for the same thing. > > I agree with Jonathan. Two names for the same thing just blows.
Sure it blows, but not as much as sticking to god-awful names like ptrdiff_t and size_t. And yea, you could label it a bikeshedding issue, but really...There's questionable bikeshed colors, and then there's "lime green with orange stripes and pink polka dots, all largely obscured by a giant shit stain and three rotting rat carcasses."
