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Postings from October 2001
Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> writes: > At 08:59 AM 10/25/2001 -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: >> Then we probably should change Parrot's name of BOOL. I'd >> suggest Bool_t, modeled after perl5's Size_t (and similar "types"). > Sounds like a good idea. IIRC, all types ending in _t are reserved by POSIX and may be used without warning in later versions of the standard. (This comes up not infrequently in some of the groups I read, but I unfortunately don't have a copy of POSIX to check for myself and be sure.) -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>Thread Previous | Thread Next