Stewart Gordon: > what you seem to be suggesting is that size_t be the same as ptrdiff_t.
Yes, but an unsigned word type needs to be kept in the language. > There is, however, another problem: signed types convert implicitly to > unsigned types, though they do generate a warning if compiled with -w > (except peculiarly for int/uint). Removing this implicit conversion > would break certain existing code that uses signed types where it should > be using unsigned. > If we also change array indices to be signed, it > would break that code that sensibly uses unsigned types, which is > probably worse. Yes, of course that code needs to be fixed after the change I have suggested. A "breaking change" means that some of the old code needs to be fixed. Bye, bearophile