Re: Why (substring "abc" 0 4) does not return "abc" instead of an error?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.07.2012 11:32, Bastien wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I read (substring "abc" 0 4) as "return the biggest substring
> > > > between 0 and 4" -- even if the string does not have 4 characters.
> > >
> > > "Even if the string does not have 4 characters" is not even suggested
> > > in substring's doc.
> >
> > FWIW, it's common behavior in many other programming languages.
>
> Which behavior?  The one I expect?

Yes. For example, JS, Ruby, Python and apparently C++ do.
Scheme, Java and C# don't, but they don't have the "negative index = 
from the end" behavior either.