On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Bennie Kloosteman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> BTW i am often anoyed by the common language as it pulls back the >> language even .. especiallys the fact the runtime lib use int instead of >> uint everywhere. though it works. >> > > This puzzled me a lot back when I was working on Midori. As you say, there > are many places where unsigned seems more appropriate than signed. I think > the main reason for it is legacy carry-over from earlier APIs. > Me too ,but i worked it out its so languages who use the runtime which dont support them can still use it , specifically VB would have issues if arrays in the standard lib use uint for count.. Would have prefered some sort of map .. Ben
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