[Python-Dev] Type of range object members (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 15 17:58:24 CEST 2006

Alexander Belopolsky schrieb:

Another reason is that POSIX interprets negative values of ssizet as "an error indication", not as an offset from the end. A better POSIX analogy would be offt (as used in lseek).

That's subtle. By this reasoning, ptrdiff_t would be wrong, as well, since it really means "negative index", not "count from the end".

In the discussion, ptrdifft was never brought up as an alternative Yes, it was, by you <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-_ _January/059562.html> :-).

Ah, that's why it isn't ptrdiff_t: Tim Peters said he liked ssize_t

I was not suggesting Pyptrdifft. My suggestion was "Pyindext", but I am six month late :-(.

Indeed, it is too late for such a change.

Regards, Martin

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