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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:10:39 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-20, Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:58:37 -0000 (UTC)
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> It's an embarrassing blemish on Rust that they made their principal
>> integer types like this; it makes all Rust code look idiotically
>> hardware dependent.  You can't code an abstract algorithm out of
>> Sedgewick, Knuth or Cormen in Rust without peppering the code with
>> distracting 32's and 64's.
>> 
>
> If size suffixes make you nervous, Rust has equivalents of size_t and
> ptrdiff_t. Named, respectively, usize and isize.
> But you probably know it.

I do, and I've seen code using size and usize for quantities that are
not sizes of any kind. While it's better than a hardware depenendcy
like i64, it's terrible naming.  Make an alias called "int"
for "size" and you're there.

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