isize_t?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:jfg0p4$i1j$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 1/21/2012 7:03 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I agree with Jonathan. Two names for the same thing just blows.

Sure it blows, but not as much as sticking to god-awful names like ptrdiff_t 
and size_t.

And yea, you could label it a bikeshedding issue, but really...There's 
questionable bikeshed colors, and then there's "lime green with orange 
stripes and pink polka dots, all largely obscured by a giant shit stain and 
three rotting rat carcasses."