On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 08:46:49 UTC, bearophile wrote: > Freddy: > >> Why not keep size_t implictly convertable but disallow it for >> usize. > > This is an interesting idea. (But the name "uword" seems > better). > > Bye, > bearophile As a legacy from 16-bit era word is ushort. I use intp and uintp.