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From: Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>
To: Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wrong description of string-rindex
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:05:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378811144.4642.32.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjrllznp.fsf@Kagami.home>

On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 11:49 +0100, Ian Price wrote:
> Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > - Scheme Procedure: string-rindex s char_pred [start [end]]
> >      Search through the string S from right to left, returning the index
> >      of the last occurrence of a character which
> > ------
> > It's actually 'first occurrence', according to the activity of function.
> > And it's nonsense for 'last occurrence' since string-index does the same
> > work.
> I'm going to be honest, I don't think either of these are particularly
> great wordings. They are both misleading in different ways, I feel.
> Rather than 'first' or 'last', it would be better to use 'leftmost' and 'rightmost'
> 

It's the word used in srfi-13
----------------------------------cut--------------------------------
string-index (string-index-right) searches through the string from the
left (right), returning the index of the first occurrence of a character
which
----------------------------------end--------------------------------




  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-10 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-10  8:22 [PATCH] wrong description of string-rindex Nala Ginrut
2013-09-10 10:49 ` Ian Price
2013-09-10 11:05   ` Nala Ginrut [this message]
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2013-09-10  8:29 Nala Ginrut
2013-09-10  8:38 Nala Ginrut
2013-09-10  9:26 ` Taylan Ulrich B.

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