On 1/10/14 9:41 PM, Corey Richardson wrote:
The current consensus on this subject, afaik, is the rename int/uint to intptr/uintptr. They're awful names, but it frees up int for a *fast* bigint type. Fast here is key. We can't have a suboptimal numeric type be the recommended default. We need to perform at least as well as GMP for me to even consider it. Additionally we'd have generic numeric literals. I don't think anyone wants what we current have for *numerics*. Fixed-size integers are necessary for some tasks, but numerics is not one of them.
I wasn't aware of this consensus. I'm not sure what I think; int and uint as they are is pretty nice for array indexing.
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