From: "Alexei A. Frounze" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: C++, complex, etc Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 00:27:43 +0400 Organization: MTU-Intel ISP Lines: 28 Message-ID: <392846BF.7637F8D9@mtu-net.ru> References: <3923BA11 DOT AD387617 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <8g0to9 DOT 3vs4qnf DOT 0 AT buerssner-17104 DOT user DOT cis DOT dfn DOT de> <3923E49D DOT 870F5E34 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <8g0srq$ige$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE> <3923FF8D DOT D241020C AT mtu-net DOT ru> <200005191227 DOT IAA23644 AT indy DOT delorie DOT com> <3925950E DOT E6FD0EA8 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <3926927E DOT D1DFD3AE AT mtu-net DOT ru> <3928136F DOT FE8C0401 AT bigfoot DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp108-234.dialup.mtu-net.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gavrilo.mtu.ru 958940948 71823 212.188.108.234 (21 May 2000 20:29:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse AT mtu DOT ru NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 May 2000 20:29:08 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Richard Dawe wrote: > > Hello. > > "Alexei A. Frounze" wrote: > > Seems people either ignore this thread and/or don't use size_t and other > > similar types. > > I think people probably just ignored the thread. Your question is a bit > like asking "who uses const", since it depends on programming style, mood, > etc. Nope. Seems most people really don't use those special types. I don't know why. Maybe they had no a good book or a good teacher? > I use size_t for sizes. Less often I use ssize_t, where I need a size, but > also want to use -1 to indicate failure or allow safe subtraction of > sizes. That's good. bye. Alexei A. Frounze ----------------------------------------- Homepage: http://alexfru.chat.ru Mirror: http://members.xoom.com/alexfru