On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Thorsten Ottosen <thorsten.ottosen@dezide.com> wrote:
Den 03-11-2011 13:16, Olaf van der Spek skrev:
If you can find it, I might believe you. It should be in the archieves from some years ago.
I meant the discussion last month. Didn't know it was discussed before. Do you have any idea in what year/month?
A couple of years maybe. I think it happened at the same time we demanded that size(Rng) only worked for RandomAccessRanges and that this function also returns a signed type.
IMO the same arguments apply to that function.
Using the old docs, one can probably track down the approximate time.
The bottom line is that it was a deliberate decision. The example put forward
std::min(bbb.size(), (size_t)arr.size());
is not portable either.
My concern was about a.size() < b.size() where one size() returns a signed type and the other an unsigned type. What about ptr_range? -- Olaf