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  1. From: "john (j.d.) hickin" <hickin@bnr.ca>
  2. Message-ID: <4e8r8a$9ir@bmtlh10.bnr.ca>
  3. X-Original-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:04:10 +0000
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  5. Date: 26 Jan 96 05:06:06 GMT
  6. Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
  7. Subject: basic_string<T>::npos
  8. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  9. Organization: Bell-Northern Research
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  17.     k2+GE/R/6q0bTL4Kh2p8O/UdpLiPlMv3
  18.     =mDe0
  19.  
  20. From the October draft (I think); the basic_string class interface has these
  21. declarations:
  22.  
  23.    typedef typename Allocator::size_type       size_type;
  24.    ...
  25.    static const size_type npos = -1;
  26.  
  27. It is my understanding that the Allocater::size_type should be an unsigned
  28. flavour.  If this is indeed the case, are we to interpret nops as having the
  29. value (size_type)(-1) ?
  30.    
  31. -- 
  32. John Hickin      Bell-Northern Research, Montreal, Quebec
  33. (514) 765-7924   hickin@bnr.ca
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