Integer conversions too pedantic in 64-bit

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Feb 15 11:00:29 PST 2011


spir wrote:
> Having to constantly explain that "_t" means type, that "size" does not 
> mean size, what this type is supposed to mean instead, what it is used 
> for in core and stdlib functionality, and what programmers are supposed 
> to use it for... isn't this a waste of our time? This, only because the 
> name is mindless?

No, because there is a vast body of work that uses size_t and a vast body of 
programmers who know what it is and are totally used to it.



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