toString vs. toUtf8

[Jason House]

renoX wrote:

> Jason House a écrit :
>> I'd love to see both a fixed and variable size option available.  Maybe:
>> int - variable size
>> int32 - fixed size
>> int64 - fixed size
>> 
>> If that's done, the size of types become obvious when the programmer
>> cares about them and may make size-sensitive code more obvious.
> 
> No!
> Naturally programmers would use 'int' everywhere and this would create
> again portability issue.

What would the portability issue be?  If they use int and don't care about
the true size, it'll port fine.


> var_int, int_be32 (bigger or equal 32 bit), int_word: would be ok though.

I'm assuming programmers won't use long windes type definitions if they can
avoid it.