From: Jeff H. <je...@ac...> - 2008-01-31 21:55:47
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Alexandre Ferrieux wrote: > On 1/31/08, Donald G Porter <dg...@ni...> wrote: >> Alexandre Ferrieux wrote: >>> What kind of internal event could make the original shimmer away, >> set x 0 >> lrange $x $x $x > > Yes but permutating the operations of index extraction and list > conversion solves the problem it seems... But this was not done > because of special values like "end-1", which need the list's length > to be deciphered to an integer. I see. > > Now: since this happens on a rather contorted case, why not just > detect it (objv[2,3]==objv[1]) and take the protective steps only in > that case ? What are the correct steps? Extrapolate for all possible values ... you get different errors in various cases, and a real result in others. Jeff |