Stupid little iota of an idea

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Fri Feb 11 22:46:16 PST 2011


On 2/11/2011 4:07 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/11/11 8:32 AM, 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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Daniel
> 
> Yah... big problems on Phobos' 64-bit port.
> 
> Andrei

There were a lot of places that needed to change from uint to size_t, yes.  But bugs by the use of unsigned.. a rather
small number.  Considering that I did the majority of the d2 64 bit work, I think I can say that with confidence in it's
accuracy.

Later,
Brad


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