On 8 July 2010 13:45, Robert Dewar wrote: > 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.
There's a "Spelling, terminology and markup" section in http://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html (Hoorah, I'm glad some good will come of this otherwise pretty pointless thread!)
