isize_t?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.671.1327197702.16222.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
>size_t comes from C/C++, and is exactly the same as it is in C++. In D, you
>know that if a type ends in _t, then its size can vary depending on the
>machine that you compile on, unlike all of the other primitive types.
>
>Maybe another name would have been better, but it works, and I think that 
>most
>people who have been C/C++ programmers just don't care. The know size_t, 
>and
>it works.
>
>At this point, given how much code would break from changing it, you would
>have to demonstrate that whatever name you came up with was really worth 
>that
>cost, I realyl don't think that that's going to happen.
>

It wouldn't have to change, just have a better name added. No reason 
'size_t', et al, couldn't still be kept for compatibility.