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		ilek on Jan 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to C in 2016 >only `i32`, `u8`, `i16` While these are not new ideas - Why not use s32 rather than i32 and so on. Makes more sense if you use something like u32 too. I think it's important when making another language to really question everything you do in it. Why use this operator, or why use this mnemonic for built in types?

masklinn on Jan 8, 2016 [–]

> While these are not new ideas - Why not use s32 rather than i32 and so on. Makes more sense if you use something like u32 too.

i denotes an integral, as opposed to the also-signed float types?

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