Pádraig Brady wrote:
If a limit, then 0 naturally implies no limit. If a length, then 0 is
meaningless.
It's not meaningless. It means length 0. Length -1 would be meaningless.
That being said, I'm tired of fighting this issue, so please feel free to go
ahead and have 0 mean infinity to the user. But surely this can be done better
than to have SIZE_MAX mean infinity internally. Just use 0 to mean infinity;
that's less confusing, if that's what 0 means externally. In other words, use
SIZE_MAX to stand only for itself, and use 0 to stand for infinity.
