Lints, Condate and bugs

[Kagamin]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Don wrote:
> > I would strongly support that. But it doesn't really work.
> > The problem is size_t. The fact that it's unsigned is a root of all 
> > kinds of evil. It means .length is unsigned!!!
> > Personally I think that any creation or access to an object which is 
> > larger in size than half the memory space, should be impossible without 
> > a special function call. Providing syntax sugar for this incredibly rare 
> > scenario introduces a plethora of bugs.
> 
> size_t is unsigned to line up with C's. ptrdiff_t is the signed version. You can 
> do things like:
> 
>      ptrdiff_t d = a.length;
> 
> Making size_t signed would have consequences that are largely unknown.

C# Array has signed length, on 64bit target I suppose, it asserts. And you can use .LongLength property for really large arrays. Who knows, how large arrays can get even on 32bit target?