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In my reading, what Stroustroup is saying is that given other problems in c/c++, that singed sizes are less bad than unsigned but both have clear and significan
by norir 5mo ago
In my reading, what Stroustroup is saying is that given other problems in c/c++, that singed sizes are less bad than unsigned but both have clear and significant deficiencies. A new language doesn't have to inherit all of these deficiencies.
- ok123456 5mo agoNo. He says that signed/unsigned arithmetic is a universal problem. And in the context of std::span, using signed arithmetic is the correct choice rather than shoehorning in size_t to make it more cosmetically consistent with the rest of the STL.