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Re: Curious phenomenon about the std::prefix and integer aliases

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Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> writes:

> I have noticed quite many times a rather curious phenomenon when it
> comes to using the 'std::' prefix and the type aliases in <cstdint>:
>
> There's a lot of C++ programmers who will use the 'std::' prefix
> for all standard library names (including those that come from the
> C standard library)... except for the type aliases in <cstdint>,
> such as int32_t, uint64_t, size_t, etc. They do this extremely
> consistently: The prefix with every other standard library name,
> never with the standard library integer type aliases.
>
> This phenomenon seems to be strangely common. I wonder why.

Maybe they think of these types (or maybe they may want to suggest that
these types) are more like the standard types int, long an so on?

Maybe they are not sure that the C standard does not give permission for
these names to be macros?  (It doesn't.)

-- 
Ben.

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Curious phenomenon about the std::prefix and integer aliases Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-08-11 08:17 +0000
  Re: Curious phenomenon about the std::prefix and integer aliases Gawr Gura <gawrgura@mail.hololive.com> - 2022-08-11 02:19 -0700
  Re: Curious phenomenon about the std::prefix and integer aliases Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-08-11 16:28 +0100
    Re: Curious phenomenon about the std::prefix and integer aliases Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-08-11 20:14 +0000

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