Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] ExtString.String.slice bug

[skaller <sk...@us...>]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:07 +0100, Amit Dubey wrote:
> On 10/25/05, Brian Brunswick <bri...@gm...> wrote:
>         On 25/10/05, Amit Dubey <ami...@gm...> wrote:
>         > I see the problem.  I think there may be another problem if
>         first < -(length
>         > s).  Is it best to fix these bugs, or change the
>         documentation? 
>         >
>         
>         My opinion would be fix the problem, since we already have
>         String.sub
>         to throw exceptions.
> 
> 
> OK, but this raises two questions:
> (1) what would be the behaviour when (length s) <= i  < 2 * (length
> s).  Similar to when 0 > i > -1 * (length s) (i.e. substact length s)?
> (2) what about when i < -2 * (length s) or i >= 2 * (length s)?
> (Where i = first/last)
> 

What Python does. See the Python reference manual.

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