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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why (substring "abc" 0 4) does not return "abc" instead of an error?
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:48:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4sbpbkr.fsf@altern.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANbX364BiW5Qag_WHC1Yp0mLiqSTVqiKcYjwXa325Lpjk0YwXQ@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:28:59 +0200")

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> I really disagree. 

Would `string-head' suits your needs?

I find out that most of the use-cases I have for my slackfull 
error-free substring version, is when the first index is 0.

So this is the same than `string-head', really.

`string-head' is also what Lars would need in the example he
gave.

-- 
 Bastien



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-16 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-15 23:15 Why (substring "abc" 0 4) does not return "abc" instead of an error? Bastien
2012-07-15 23:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-07-15 23:59   ` Bastien
2012-07-16  0:10     ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-07-16  7:14       ` Bastien
2012-07-16 16:15         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-16 16:22           ` Bastien
2012-07-16 16:46           ` Bastien
2012-07-16 17:57             ` Tassilo Horn
2012-07-16 18:51               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-07-16 19:30                 ` Bastien
2012-07-16 19:30                 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-07-16 20:20                 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-16 19:25               ` Bastien
2012-07-16 19:43                 ` Bastien
2012-07-16 20:19             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-16 20:30             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-16 22:28               ` Lennart Borgman
2012-07-16 22:48                 ` Bastien [this message]
2012-07-16 22:53                   ` Lennart Borgman
2012-07-16  7:38       ` Andreas Schwab
2012-07-16  9:40         ` Juanma Barranquero
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-16  3:45 Dmitry Gutov
2012-07-16  7:32 ` Bastien
2012-07-16  7:52   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-07-16  8:38     ` Bastien
2012-07-16 13:03   ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-07-16 14:32     ` Bastien
2012-07-16 13:10 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-16 14:40   ` Bastien
2012-07-16 15:00     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-16 15:07       ` Lennart Borgman
2012-07-16 15:19         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-16 15:22         ` Bastien
2012-07-16 15:46       ` Bastien
2012-07-16 15:49         ` Bastien
2012-07-16 19:49           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-07-16 22:32             ` Bastien
2012-07-16 15:56         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-16 16:13           ` Bastien
2012-07-16 19:00 Dmitry Gutov
2012-07-16 19:51 ` Tassilo Horn

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