Integer conversions too pedantic in 64-bit

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> news:ijeil4$2aso$3 at digitalmars.com...
>>> spir wrote:
>>>> Having to constantly explain that "_t" means type, that "size" does not 
>>>> mean size, what this type is supposed to mean instead, what it is used 
>>>> for in core and stdlib functionality, and what programmers are supposed 
>>>> to use it for... isn't this a waste of our time? This, only because the 
>>>> name is mindless?
>>> No, because there is a vast body of work that uses size_t and a vast 
>>> body of programmers who know what it is and are totally used to it.
>>>
>>
>> And there's a vast body who don't.
>>
>> And there's a vast body who are used to C++, so let's just abandon D and 
>> make it an implementation of C++ instead.
>
> I would agree that D is a complete waste of time if all it consisted of 
> was renaming things.

And since D *does* force C++ users to learn far bigger differences, learning 
a different name for something is trivial.