isize_t?

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On 22 January 2012 05:51, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "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."
>

Also size_t and ptrdiff_t are not necessarily the same size.
Is there a signed size_t type? Is there an unsigned ptrdiff_t type? What
are they?
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