Stupid little iota of an idea

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sat Feb 12 02:50:33 PST 2011


On 2/12/11 12:46 AM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> 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

Walter has a story of staring at a couple lines of code for hours, that 
was discussed in this forum.

Andrei


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