Integer conversions too pedantic in 64-bit

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Mon Feb 14 18:19:35 PST 2011


"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1655.1297736016.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
> I believe that t is for type. The same goes for types such as time_t. The 
> size
> part of the name is probably meant to be short for either word size or 
> pointer
> size.
>
> Personally, I see nothing wrong with size_t and see no reason to change 
> it. If
> it were a particularly bad name and there was a good suggestion for a
> replacement, then perhaps I'd support changing it. But I see nothing wrong 
> with
> size_t at all.
>

So it's (modified) hungarian notation? Didn't that go out with boy bands, 
Matrix spoofs and dancing CG babies?





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