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stephbooktoday at 6:08 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm no C++ dev, but as an outsider, it sure reads like the whole "int is variable length" mistake again.


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pjmlptoday at 6:15 AM

That abstraction is occasionally usable in low level systems code, that is why Go, Rust, D and C# support it as well.

Also to note that is C not C++.