On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 05:27:12 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 02:53:32 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
On 10/6/15 7:21 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
could we have ssize_t defined in phobos somewhere so your
code ends up
being portable ;) (It's trivial to do, obviously).
ptrdiff_t
-Steve
It seems unnatural to use such a name when the variable has
nothing to do with pointers - it doesn't contribute to the
readability. Yes, it's trivial, but small things cumulatively
matter. Adam tends to use int and when that gets mixed up with
an auto size_t (eg via length) then his code doesn't compile on
64 bit. And if it happens with his code, you can imagine this
isn't a problem that inexperienced users never encounter.
IMO it seems unnatural to use size_t with a signed/negative value
too.
