I wonder if part of the reason that this arose is that some BASICs from that era just returned a null string "" if string slicing errors arose, without an error message and people remembered that?
While that was probably convenient for the casual programmer, it must have made debugging difficult if one of your slice variables went out of range. >> Bite me!!! ;-) > > I'd rather not... The mind boggles, Wolfgang ... Dilwyn On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 12:42, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > > Norman Dunbar wrote: > > > > I still think that returning "" for a specific string slice from (a to > > a-1) is a bug! > > > I tend to agree. x$ (a to b) where b is smaller than a should rise an > error.The only way that would make any kind of sense to me would be if > this returned the array contents in the reverse order. Now THAT would be > a cool feature! > > > Bite me!!! ;-) > > I'd rather not... > > Wolfgang > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
