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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:39:10 -0800
From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more!
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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