In article <87454@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:20:43AM -0700, Joe wrote: > >> In the end, the choice of whether to use names like "char" > >> and "int", which are immediately familiar to any C programmer > >> anywhere, ... really comes down to a personal choice of > >> whether to drink Palm's nomenclature Kool-aid. > > > > The only counter argument I have for that is that I have noticed that > > people who think they are C programmers often have a lot of difficulty > > with subtle implementation differences in the Palm API functions (e.g., > Those who use the standard C spelling for everything also have less > difficulty because they end up using C library functions supplied by > the compiler vendor, who might well choose to implement them with the > Standard semantics rather than mapping them directly to their subtly > different Palm OS equivalents. :-)
Maybe we should just campaign to get everyone to use and support ISO C 1999's <stdint.h>. Its a standard, it lets you express exact sized types, and its not tied to any OS, just to the standards conformance of your tools's standard library. -- Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead Get help at http://palmoswerks.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
