rename Uint => UInt, etc. ?

[StefanKarpinski]

I was watching a presentation on Swift, which has eerily similar names for basic numeric types – except that unsigned integer types are capitalized as UInt rather than Uint, UInt64 rather than Uint64, etc., which strikes me as possibly a more pleasant and consistent capitalization on the theory that UInt is short for U(nsigned )Int(eger). It also has the virtue that changing a type from Int and UInt is just a matter of adding a letter instead of replacing a letter and adding a letter.

To be filed under things I should have brought up five years ago.

[nalimilan]

FWIW, I remember that when I discovered Julia I found Uint a bit weird, UInt would have looked more logical to me.

[ivarne]

It's kind of the thing you just take for granted, but I have often seen ERROR: UInt8 not defined, so I guess it would be easy bring back my bad habit. Now that we have Int(x) and Uint8(x) instead of int() and uint8() this makes even more sense.

if can_deprecate_types_with_proper_warning()
   return +1
else
   return -10
end

A nice way to do deprecation with warnings would also greatly benefit the String -> AbstractString rename.

[toivoh]

I agree, UInt feels better.

[tonyhffong]

+1

[ntessore]

In the same vein: Regex vs RegEx, if the same logic as for module names applies.

[quinnj]

+1 for changing Uint to UInt.

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In the same vein: Regex vs RegEx, if the same logic as for module names
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/Yw5pB4voy1s/DiSPQQgQGB8J
applies.

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[StefanKarpinski]

Although Regex is technically an abbreviation its quite standard to capitalize it this way in a variety of languages.

[garborg]

Another +1

[Jutho]

+1, bitten by this one several times.

[johnmyleswhite]

+10000 for more consistent capitalization