Re: [eigen] Indexes: why signed instead of unsigned?

[Mark Borgerding <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Benoit Jacob wrote:
> 2010/5/11 Jitse Niesen <jitse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>   
>
> > but we never
> > had somebody complain about eigen using only 32-bit indices. And on a
> > practical note, it seems rather short before the planned beta tagging to
> > make such a radical change.
> >     
>
> True. This is not optimal. On the other hand, releasing a beta with
> int and getting people to complain about that later, would be even
> worse :)
This will only happen if someone is using 2^31 elements or more.  Even 
then, it should be a non-astonishing failure.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment