Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Indexed tree module

[Brian H. <bh...@sp...>]

On 12 Sep 2004, skaller wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 01:23, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> > 
> > > I would have suggested "slice" just to be consistent with
> > > ExtString.String.slice, but since it uses the (index,len)
> > > approach instead of (first,last) and is also much stricter
> > > it might be confusing to use the same name.
> > 
> > Actually, (first, last) would be easier to implement.  Is there a 
> > preference in the group?
> 
> First,len has the advantage that the last node must
> be in the same list. However, first,last is probably
> more useful in some circumstances -- and works even
> when the two nodes are in a distinct list. 

Um, first and last are both indexes.  Ints.  I think you're still thinking
of dllist.

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