bug#1943: marked as done (23.0.60; doc string for substring: mention value is a copy, string is any vector)

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copy, string is any vector
has caused the Emacs bug report #1943,
regarding 23.0.60; doc string for substring: mention value is a copy, string is 
any vector
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> Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:35:11 -0800
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> The doc string for function `substring' could be made clearer.
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> 1. Like the Elisp manual entry for `substring', mention that the
> value returned does not share with the input STRING object. That is, a
> copy of the substring is returned, not the substring itself.
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> 2. State more clearly that STRING can be any kind of vector, not just
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> 3. FROM and TO do not "start" at 0.  It is indexing that starts at 0.
>    Better to speak of "zero-based indexing".
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> Something like this:
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>   "Return a new string whose characters are a substring of STRING.
> STRING can be any kind of vector; elements need not be characters.
> Indexing of STRING is zero-based.  The substring starts at index
> FROM and ends before index TO.  If TO is nil, then the substring
> runs to the end of STRING.  If either FROM or TO is negative,
> then STRING is indexed backward, from its end."
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-01-04 on
>  LENNART-69DE564 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.',
>  version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)
>  --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'
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> Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:14:34 -0500
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> > The doc string for function `substring' could be made clearer.
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> I've rewritten it.  Thanks for the report.
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