[phobos] std.string.cmp

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I reverted to int. I was worried about a slight inefficiency but I guess 
it's hardly measurable.

Andrei

On 1/10/11 10:56 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> Hrm.. I think I'd like to object to today's change of std.string.cmp to return
> sizediff_t rather than int.  The reason.. Object.opCmp returns int.  So, using
> cmp is needlessly painful.  A simple cast is dangerous.. consider what happens
> if some how the cmp returns a multiple of 2^32.  But I guarantee that a simple
> cast is what most people that run into the mismatch will do.
>
> Thoughts?
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