'int' is enough for 'length' to migrate code from x86 to x64
    Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d 
    digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
       
    Fri Nov 21 11:34:11 PST 2014
    
    
  
"Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message 
news:m4nn38$1lau$2 at digitalmars.com...
> What is your point? (Honest question.)
That using signed integers exclusively eliminates one class of bugs, while 
making another class only marginally more likely.
> Are you proposing that we make all array lengths signed?
No, I think that ship has sailed.  But I recommend avoiding unsigned types 
for general arithmetic. 
    
    
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