vector::size_type

[James Kanze]

* James Kanze:

That's what I thought, but as it turned it out that requirement was
removed for all containers except basic_string prior to the 1998
standardization.

See my article elsethread.

If you have information to the contrary, please share;

The only thing I have is my copy of ISO 14882:1998. In §20.4.1,
The default allocator, you have:

template< class T > class allocator {
public:
typedef size_t size_type ;
...
} ;

But you're right that the standard doesn't seem to require it to
be used.

Not requiring its use doesn't really make sense, of
course---suppose I instantiate vector with an allocator where
size_type is an extended unsigned integer, for example---but
then, not much related to allocators makes sense.

also, if anyone has hard information about the rumours about
reversing that decision in C++0x then that would certainly
also be nice!

Agreed. It does seem strange.