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

[John Cowan]

Michele La Monaca scripsit:

> Regarding the practical aspects of the issue, I hope you might agree
> with me that substring2 if far superior to substring1. 

All you're arguing now is that it's substring2 that deserves the name
"substring", since the slice function already does what you want.
That's plain silly.  Go ahead and use slice if you think it's more
practical.

> give you a sense of the inadequacy of the substring function currently
> shipped with chicken.

It's inadequate to your purposes, but it's adequate to other people's
purposes, and vice versa for the function you want.

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