Dynamic arrays, basic type names, auto

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Markus Koskimies" <markus at reaaliaika.net> wrote in message 
news:g55see$1h9i$15 at digitalmars.com...
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:57:54 -0400, Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>
> - byte, word, dword; these are well defined due to historical reasons.
> Change them and you confuse lots of people.
>

A "word" is well-defined to be the native data size of a given chip (memory, 
cpu, etc). People who have done a lot of PC programming tend to forget that 
or be unaware of it and end up with the mistaken inpression that it's 
well-defined to be "two bytes", which has never been true in the 
general-case.