Dynamic arrays, basic type names, auto

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> bearophile:
>> - set
>> (built-in set type, often useful, see Python3 and Fortress)
>
> An alternative syntax that may be more fitting in D:
> set of strings:
> void[str] ss;
>
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>
> Jarrett Billingsley:
>> (like integer types that reflect
>> their size, built-in native word types) have been suggested time and time
>> again and W doesn't see the purpose when you have aliases.
>
> Aliases allow you to use different names, but I think it can't be used to 
> justify the choice/presence of (potentially) worse default names.

I agree with you 100%.  Just convince Walter and everything'll be great!

(My argument -- current integer names are qualitative, not quantitative, and 
it doesn't make sense to assign quantitative values to qualitative names. 
"long" is no longer "long" when it's the native word size.)