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Re: Proposed changes and to regular expression interfaces in core

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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
April 10, 2007 11:48
Subject:
Re: Proposed changes and to regular expression interfaces in core
Message ID:
51dd1af80704101148i1460cf81ueac11a717a8394ad@mail.gmail.com
On 4/10/07, Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> wrote:
> > Actually negative indices are used currently so it couldn't be STRLEN
> > without some larger changes.
>
> Doesn't Perl have I64? if not, it's about time we add it, since I32 starts
> increasingly to become a limit...

It's probably much better to refactor those places where I32 gets used
for an offset to not use negative integers. STRLEN is a much better
type to use since it ends up being size_t.

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