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On Tue Jul 30 06:33:28 2013, sprout wrote: > On Mon Jul 29 22:19:43 2013, chip wrote: > > On 7/27/2013 7:33 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote: > > > What should the maximum string and array lengths be? > > > > Why would the answer ever be anything other than size_t? > > Because AvFILLp needs to be set to -1 when the array is empty. We > *could* use size_t but reserve ~0 as a special marker, but that > complicates the code for little gain. Also, the HV APIs use negative lengths for utf8. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=72784Thread Previous | Thread Next