Re: Coding style question

[Markus Hitter]

Am 14.04.2008 um 11:29 schrieb Fred Kiefer:
> [...] the new 10.5 style of using NSInteger and NSUInteger instead  
> of int and unsigned int.
>
> GNUstep already has these types defined in NSObjCRuntime.h and my  
> question now is, whether we should slowly switch over to use these  
> types in the API definitions?

Well, I'm still stunning why people prefer variable types of  
undefined size[1] (int, NSInteger, etc.) over those with defined size  
(int16, int32, int64, etc.). To my understanding of coding, one  
should always care about the size of variables, ruling out types of  
undefined size. Additionally, ideal code compiles and works on a 16  
bit platform just as good as on a 128 bit platform, without  
conditional code or similar clutches.

So, an enhancement over Cocoa would be to get rid of int as well as  
of NS(U)Integer.


With that off my chest, I think moving to NSInteger is better than  
sticking with int. Undoubtly, one day Apple will start to do things  
with NSInteger you can't do with the traditional types.


Markus


[1] Sure, on a given platform, int has a defined size. But GNUstep is  
meant to be platform independent, isn't it?

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