On Friday, 12 February 2016 at 15:59:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
It would be far better IMHO to just do a check in iota and
throw a RangeError if the length wouldn't fit in size_t. Having
length ever be anything other than size_t is just going to
cause problems with other ranges. On 32-bit systems, you lose
out on the ability to have a range that covers all values of
long or ulong, but that's of very limited usefulness anyway,
and as long as the number of elements is no greater than
size_t.max, it would be fine - which would cover virtually all
use cases. No, it's not perfect, but allowing length to be
anything but size_t just causes bugs - especially in generic
code.
- Jonathan M Davis
What about a template overload where you can set the length type
as separate from the type of the range elements?
