speaking of non-profileration of types ...

Given that I added a couple of types in my unsigned-removal patch, I think it's useful to consider anti-proliferating the types. Extcount could arguably be eliminated, though it provides some nice parallelism with Bytecount. Of course, what really should happen is some more general rethinking of the type names, in particular: [buffer positions, 1-based] Bufpos -> Charpos Bytind -> Bytepos Memind -> Mempos? [string positions or character data counts, 0-based] Bytecount Charcount Extcount -> Bytecount? Does it make sense to distinguish these two? [coded character data] Bufbyte -> Intbyte Extbyte [general] Element_Count Memory_Count Lstream_Data_Count -> Memory_Count? Does it make sense to distinguish these two? comments? -- ben I'm sometimes slow in getting around to reading my mail, so if you want to reach me faster, call 520-661-6661. See http://www.666.com/ben/chronic-pain/ for the hell I've been through.