• anonymous (13/15) Jan 12 2003 The author of C regretted that he did not make his integral datatypes we...

anonymous <anonymous_member pathlink.com> writes:

I hope you take critism as an indication that people are really interested in
your language...


 future implementations can increase the size further.

The author of C regretted that he did not make his integral datatypes well
defined, and D may repeat C's history with wchar.  I suggest using char16 and
char32 instead.  If I'm writing for Windows, I use char16 for win32 API calls
and if I'm writing for linux, I would use char32 for linux API calls.

Will D have two sets of code for handling strings? Yes, but D will have this
anyways with ports for the two operating systems.

Libraries that have wchars as their parameter lists will not know the size
without testing them -- something that is better done with overloading
(method(char16[] str) and method(char32[] str)).

As it is now, wchar forces us (library programmers) to think about the wchar
datatype.  D might as well make it more explicit.