File.size() is a ulong

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday 09 January 2011 05:29:47 bearophile wrote:
> From a recent update in File I've seen that size() returns an ulong, given
> by seek():
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?re
> v=2284#L585
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?re
> v=2284#L1245
> 
> It uses fseek, that seems to return a signed value:
> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/ftell/
> 
> Isn't it better and safer if those functions of File return a long instead
> of an ulong?

Well, create a bug report then. fseek() does appear to take a long, so it 
probably would make more sense for File's size() function to use long as well. 
However, given that it makes no sense for a file's size to be negative, I'm not 
sure that it really matters.

- Jonathan M Davis