On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 09:05 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Actually, I think it's brilliantly documented. Defining base as the
> > first valid value and limit as the first invalid value makes it pretty
> > clear, IMHO.
>
> "first invalid value" is hard to express if the range you
> want to check includes the largest value for the type
> you are using. Either "limit" needs to be the largest
> allowable value, or you should stick to "base,len".
Hi Tony!
Sure. But to be pedantic, that's not a question of documentation: the
documentation made it pretty clear that this expression was not
possible.
Nonetheless, I agree that base+len has merit over start & end.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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