On Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 6:49:41 PM UTC+2, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Alessandro Re <akiros...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Besides being possible, and probably not really practical, is it safe? > Are > > there any practical use cases where redefining some basic data types can > be > > a good idea? > > It is safe. But it is likely to be confusing for any readers. And it > can make it hard to call other packages that use a different > definition of `int`. So I'd have to say that this is never practical. > > I tried to go down that path in a code that uses the flag package, but either ways (redefining basic types or defining new types) it seems unpractical, as flag uses pointers.
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