David Cournapeau wrote: > They are totally different concepts: byte is not a (C) type, but a unit, > the one returned by the sizeof operator.
If a word is needed for this concept, then invent a new one, e.g. "size unit", rather than reusing "byte", which everyone already understands as meaning 8 bits. > C impose that sizeof(unsigned type) == sizeof(signed type) for any type, > so if one byte is one char, unsigned char would be a byte too, and so > unsigned char and char would be the same, which is obviously wrong. No, "char" and "unsigned char" can still be different types. You just need to say that sizeof(char) == sizeof(unsigned char) == 1, and leave bytes out of the discussion altogether. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
