sbyte [Was: Re: Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA]

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:

>The wchar and dchar stem from the popular WORD and DWORD sizes on the x86 platforms. wchar_t is of course "wide character" for C, and is often used for UTF-16 at least on Windows platforms. Confusingly, wchar_t on Linux is 32 bits.<

>From such comments of yours, and from the lack of interest from Don, Nick and others, I guess that idea of changing char names is closed, even if I don't like those names. I will update the bugzilla with this.

The proposal of renaming the byte => sbyte is not closed/resolved yet. It's a little more important, because the current situation is bug-prone.

Bye,
bearophile