Armin Rigo wrote:
> I know this. These corner cases are debatable and different answers
> could be seen as correct, as I think is the case for find(). My point
> was different: I was worrying that the recent change in str.find() would
> needlessly send existing and working programs into infinite loops, which
> can be a particularly bad kind of failure for some applications.
since "abc".find("", 0) == 0, I would have thought that a program that
searched for an empty string in a loop wouldn't get anywhere at all.
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