[Issue 3850] Signed/unsigned bytes type name
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digitalmars-d-bugs at puremagic.com
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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