Joern Rennecke wrote:
Quoting Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com>:
But as noted the C++ standard prefers integral type, so might as well
standardize on that when talking about C or C++.
I think it also helps clarity to speak of integral types. I.e. in the C
family of languages, 'char' is an integral type, but you may not use the
'int' keyword for a 'char' declaration.
that's actually a good *technical* argument for systematically using
integral instead of integer. If we have a glossary somewhere, we could
even have an entry for integral type that pointed out that this includes
char.
