On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:43 PM Bo Persson via Std-Discussion
<std-discussion_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On 2020-04-28 at 12:46, Gennaro Prota via Std-Discussion wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> The containers size_type is not required to be convertible to ptrdiff_t.
> This will try to find some other type in that case.

Isn't a container's size_type guaranteed to be an unsigned integer type?

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