Good point integer overflow. Thanks! On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 10:30:46 AM UTC-6, Andy Balholm wrote: > > When a function is used incorrectly, a panic is appropriate. If the count > comes from an untrusted source, the caller should check that it is > non-negati!e (and not too large) before calling Repeat, rather than > checking an error afterward. > > Using a uint would actually be worse, since uint(int(-1)) is an extremely > large number. > > Andy
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