Re: Is __int64 dead?

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"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:0p91d3tv5nn4ms14e17uoppemogs99d7f1@xxxxxxxxxx

I tend to use the types LONGLONG and ULONGLONG and not worry about the underlying type
they are written in terms of.

Am I the only one who worries about the aesthetics of these names?

bool, char, int, __int64, are elegant names.

long, short aren't too bad either.

BYTE, WORD, UINT, and even DWORD are not too bad.

But others are just plain ugly including

LONGLONG, wchar_t, size_t, INT_PTR, and a whole host of those rising to prominence relatively recently. Just a thought - I now i'm not going to win any battles to eliminate them. <g> (I do tend to use WCHAR instead of wchar_t though.)

Dave
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