Re: [Chicken-hackers] substring function and bounds checks

[John Cowan]

.alyn.post. scripsit:

> I certainly appreciate this design principle, but there is just no
> explaining DSSSL using the above philosophy.  I find the interaction
> between #!rest and #!key much more sensible in Python, which forbids
> every potentially ambiguous case and therefor has much more
> consistent behavior with the various combinations available.  

DSSSL was cloning Common Lisp here, and Common Lisp has never given
a single, double, short, or long damn for consistency.

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