🚀 go-pugleaf

The basic problem has been already been noted raised by Mr. Kanze.  Because
the basic_string contains the following declaration:

	 static const size_type npos = -1;

it is evident that there is a constraint that size_type must be something thay
can be constructed from an integral type.  I can't quite recall the wording of
the original post but it was made clear that size_type cannot be arbitrary.

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