On 25-06-2012 20:28, Mehrdad wrote:
On Monday, 25 June 2012 at 18:22:00 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
What makes you think 'length' should evaluate to a size_t? If it it's
documented like that somewhere then that should be fixed.
That is a VERY good question...
I guess it doesn't /have/ to... didn't quite realize this.
But the fact that it currently does for pretty much everything (even
including std.bitmanip.BitArray.length) was what made me think this.
I guess that should be fixed then..
It should be unsigned though, so if you need a type wider than 32-bit
size_t, use ulong etc.
artur
I mentioned signed in case we want to allow negatives just in case we
want special values (e.g. "unknown length", etc.)
IMHO unsigned is fine. I personally strongly dislike the .NET situation
where the convention is to use signed ints for everything due to some
stupid language interoperability guideline just for VB.NET (and J#
previously).
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