[Issue 3850] Signed/unsigned bytes type name

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Wed May 16 14:53:53 UTC 2018


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3850

Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |dmitry.olsh at gmail.com
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #13 from Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> ---
Like it or not but changing `byte` to be unsigned and `sbyte` to be signed or
some such is ton of _trivial_ breakage that gives us exactly 0 benefit.

It may appease C# programmers, but I believe name of signed byte is the least
of their problems. Java has signed byte as `byte` though so not w/o precedent.

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