Re: length's type.

[Olivier Pisano via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 08:55:54 UTC, zjh wrote:
On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 06:34:13 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka 
wrote:

The explicit conversion `.length.to!int` has an extra benefit


I rarely use numbers over one million.

But do I have to consider numbers over `4 billion` every day?

If .length were to be an int, D could not handle array of more 
than 2G bytes. The whole language would be useless on 64 bit 
systems.