On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:50:26 +0000 Auke Booij <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24 October 2015 at 08:23, Jasper St. Pierre <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm struggling to understand the motivation for this patch. > > > > krh has always said that you need to think of uint and int as two > > entirely separate types -- mixing both in math will likely screw up. > > You can see this in other places -- widths are often expressed as > > signed ints in the protocol, not unsigned ints. > > Is it maybe time to fix the protocol before it becomes a problem? Not > sure what a sane process towards this would be... What's wrong with the protocol? It is already using signed integers everywhere for dimensions and coordinates that I recall. Anyway, we must not change the type if the protocol is already stable. Thanks, pq
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