Bug? 0 is less than -10

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 10/7/15 1:27 AM, 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
>>
>
> 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.

ptrdiff_t is in the C spec, ssize_t is not. No reason to name all the 
types of snow here.

A machine-word-sized signed integer is ptrdiff_t.

-Steve