From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more!
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:39:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121122123850.GA8106@dinah> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5jO1gUWfjYnMwddn50RUborjBhjzPE-_S2wakD5M3g9aw@mail.gmail.com>
Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> once said:
> On 22 November 2012 03:44, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > uintptr in all over the go packages because it is right.
>
> I hadn't noticed that particularly, but having grep'd the source, I
> see it's also used for variables that are counters and numbers of
> things.
Can you give an example? Nothing jumped out after a quick glance.
> Is that right too? I suspect it's more out of expediency. Some other
> type usage looks odd too. int32 where int would do. Curious.
Such as? The only one I can think of is (*os.File).Fd returning
a uintptr but that was changed from int for a reason (Windows).
Cheers,
Anthony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-22 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-20 21:49 erik quanstrom
2012-11-22 0:18 ` Federico G. Benavento
2012-11-22 1:21 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-22 1:35 ` Bruce Ellis
2012-11-22 2:08 ` Dan Cross
2012-11-22 2:15 ` Bruce Ellis
2012-11-22 2:33 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 2:35 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 3:44 ` Bruce Ellis
2012-11-22 8:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 9:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 10:21 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-22 11:00 ` Richard Miller
2012-11-22 11:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 11:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 11:32 ` Richard Miller
2012-11-22 11:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 11:49 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-22 13:26 ` Richard Miller
2012-11-22 14:05 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 14:53 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-22 11:50 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-22 11:10 ` Richard Miller
2012-11-22 11:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 11:32 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 11:33 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 10:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 12:39 ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2012-11-22 12:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 12:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 12:54 ` Anthony Martin
2012-11-22 13:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 9:59 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 9:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 9:40 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 18:18 ` Federico G. Benavento
2012-11-22 11:36 Richard Miller
2012-11-22 11:45 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-22 11:54 ` Steve Simon
2012-11-22 11:59 ` Charles Forsyth
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