Is it time for D 3.0?

JN 666total at wp.pl
Sat Mar 28 18:40:30 UTC 2020


On Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 17:40:45 UTC, Denis Feklushkin 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 17:29:57 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote:
>
>>> byte -> octet
>>
>> You could make an argument for the other ones, but I'm pretty 
>> sure
>> everyone understands what is meant by 'byte' 99% of the time.
>
> At this decade.
>
> I specifically wrote remark about FPGA. Creating new processors 
> becomes easy as creating software for them.
>
> In the future we will have a lot of different processors inside 
> of PC case. I can easily imagine special purpose CPU with byte 
> sized 6 or 16. So as for me it’s better to get rid of this 
> name, since in the very first version of D language it was 
> declared that standard types are platform independent (except 
> size_t of course).

I think octet would be confusing, even if it's technically more 
correct. Most people are aware of what byte means, they wouldn't 
know what octet is. Alternatively, byte type could just be 
dropped and uint8 should be used instead.




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