DConf 2013 Day 2 Talk 6: Higgs, an experimental JIT compiler written in D by Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert

[Ali Çehreli]

On 06/08/2013 02:23 PM, bearophile wrote:

 > Slide 67:
 >
 > - D integer types have guaranteed sizes, but
 >    they're not obvious from the name
 > - Why not have int8, uint8, int32, uint32, etc. in
 >    default namespace, encourage their use?
 >
 > I agree. It's hard to guess the size and signedness of types as byte,
 > ubyte, wchar, dchar. I prefer names that are more clear.

There is std.stdint but it is not used much:

   http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdint.html

Ali