Treating the abusive unsigned syndrome

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I remembered a couple more details. The names bits8, bits16, bits32, and 
bits64 were a possible choice for undecided-sign integrals. Walter and I 
liked that quite some. Walter also suggested that we make those actually 
full types accessible to programmers. We both were concerned that they'd 
add to the already large panoply of integral types in D. Dropping bits8 
and bits16 would reduce bloating at the cost of consistency.

So we're contemplating:

(a) Add bits8, bits16, bit32, bits64 public types.
(b) Add bit32, bits64 public types.
(c) Add bits8, bits16, bit32, bits64 compiler-internal types.
(d) Add bit32, bits64 compiler-internal types.

Make your pick or add more choices!


Andrei