On May 30, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Roland King wrote: > No. I am saying that semantically the 'size' of an array is a non-negative > integer and thus the correct way to represent it is with a data type which > represents non-negative integers.
While that is certainly correct, the counter argument is that it is widely considered "good hygiene" in C to only use unsigned ints where you really need unsigned, because of the high potential for "hilarity" if one ever forgets and makes a simple subtraction where one shouldn't. It's really not worth the picky semantic correctness to use a type which can so easily cause so many bugs. -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
