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Subject: Rationale for return type of the non-array version of std::ssize()
From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro.prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-04-28 05:46:20

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Hi All,

what is the reason why the non-array version of std::ssize() returns

  std::common_type_t<std::ptrdiff_t, std::make_signed_t<decltype(c.size())>>

rather than just

  std::ptrdiff_t

?

Thanks a lot.

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