[Issue 3850] Signed/unsigned bytes type name

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Thu Oct 16 06:35:39 PDT 2014


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3850

--- Comment #11 from Sobirari Muhomori <dfj1esp02 at sneakemail.com> ---
The principle of least surprise is utterly violated with this: byte is unsigned
everywhere except for D.

A symmetric name can be tiny/utiny (for tiny int).

(In reply to Andrej Mitrovic from comment #2)
> Although I agree with you I think it's way too late to fix this without
> breaking tons of code.

Another easy task for dfix, BTW.

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