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On 30 July 2013 17:20, Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > 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. Yes, but that API is insane. Utterly insane. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next