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		Leszek on March 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ Core Guidelines I think you're missing the point that gsl::index, unlike size_t, is signed.

AstralStorm on March 9, 2018 [–]

Ssize_t then. Or ptrdiff_t.

smitherfield on March 9, 2018 | [–]

`ssize_t` isn't standard C++ (it is required by POSIX); `ptrdiff_t` is only one character fewer than `gsl::index`.

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