From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
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 00:53:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANbX365Zi=s0e73nTiZAGqfJ1gX3rP7PUiF6xx+z1zUE6zD7Eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4sbpbkr.fsf@altern.org>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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.
I think I like your suggestion with a fourth argument to substring better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-16 22:53 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
2012-07-16 22:53 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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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