isize_t?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.674.1327201445.16222.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Saturday, January 21, 2012 21:54:37 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Except that we're generally against keeping around alias cruft like that
> except temporarily as part of a deprecation path, so that doesn't usually 
> fly.
> Certainly, it means that if you want that to happen, you'd then have to be
> able to come up with a name and arguments for it which justified having 
> two
> standard aliases for the same thing.
>

How about: "Because the existing ones blow and removing them outright is 
never gonna happen"? ;)