https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3850 --- Comment #9 from bearophile_hugs at eml.cc --- An example of the problems caused by the byte/ubyte name pair: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/jvqjknmgilnumtjizdhf@forum.dlang.org For the mind of most persons a "byte" is not signed. --