Integer conversions too pedantic in 64-bit

[David Nadlinger]

On 2/17/11 8:56 AM, Denis Koroskin wrote:
> I second that. word/uword are shorter than ssize_t/size_t and more in
> line with other type names.
>
> I like it.

I agree that size_t/ptrdiff_t are misnomers and I'd love to kill them 
with fire, but when I read about »word«, I intuitively associated it 
with »two bytes« first – blame Intel or whoever else, but the potential 
for confusion is definitely not negligible.

David