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On 7/30/2013 8:20 AM, Father Chrysostomos via RT 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. Those specific APIs can continue to use signed integers if you prefer; but the signedness need not escape those specific parameter lists if so. >Thread Previous | Thread Next