'int' is enough for 'length' to migrate code from x86 to x64

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 21 November 2014 at 09:47:32 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Friday, 21 November 2014 at 09:37:50 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> I thought everyone hated foreach_reverse!
>
> I dislike foreach_reverse;
> 1. it's a keyword with an underscore in it;
> 2. complicates implementation of foreach and parsing.
> 3. key_word with under_score

These are compiler implementation issue and all solvable. People 
don't give a shit about how the compiler work and rightly so. The 
language is made to fit need of the user, not the needs of the 
implementer.