From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:59:48 +0000 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more! Topicbox-Message-UUID: ddeea4e0-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 perhaps they would, if everyone agrees to change to those. after a previous discussion on the nix list, i set off to change Inferno's code to use them, but quickly saw that it was just going to be a big nuisance unless Plan 9, p9p, drawterm, and all the rest changed at the same time. what are the Young Turks of 9front doing? i think all this misses the point of erik's manual page, however, was to describe what the system provides now, and was providing long before those alternative types existed, in the attempt to make it more likely that things work in both 32 and 64 bits. On 22 November 2012 01:35, Bruce Ellis wrote: > i think that go's scalar types would work better.