Stupid little iota of an idea

spir denis.spir at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 10:02:49 PST 2011


On 02/11/2011 03:32 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 10.02.2011 12:40, schrieb spir:
>>
>> Certainly, because it's /highly/ important for a community of programmers to
>> share the same "culture". And names are the main support&  vehicle for this
>> culture.
>>
>> Denis
>>
>> (For this reason, I stoppped aliasing size_t and size_diff_t to Ordinal and
>> Cardinal ;-) I use uint everywhere)
>>
>
> This will cause trouble on 64bit systems, because there size_t is ulong.

Yes and No. For pointers and mem diffs, yes. But for 99% uses of cardinals and 
ordinals uint is by far big enough.

Denis
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