Re: [Chicken-hackers] substring function and bounds checks

[John Cowan]

Michele La Monaca scripsit:

> The funny thing looking at the implementation is that it actually does
> the check (so no speed) only to have a better opportunity to crash
> (so no safety).

Raising an exception is not crashing.  Crashing means that no recovery
is possible within the Scheme process, which is not the case here.

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