On 13 January 2012 21:06, Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au@gmail.com> wrote:

Also, slight bikeshedding issue: I'm not so sure on using names like int4 for vectors. You see things like int32 a lot to mean a 32-bit integer, or int8 to mean an 8-bit integer. Using this notation for vectors may be confusing.

I had the same feeling.

short8 really made me instanytly uncomfortable. I'm so used to seeing a number on the end of a trivial type as being the width in bits. Even though I knew exactly what I was looking at, I still unconsciously assumed this was an 8bit type...

It makes perfect sense for float4, since it's completely absurd to imagine a 4bit float, and it's also conventional from Cg and HLSL.

I wonder if there's a nice naming convention to mitigate this problem?

Perhaps vshort8? Or some other small prefix/suffix?