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string-cursor-forward/back Shiro Kawai (13 Apr 2016 01:25 UTC)
Re: string-cursor-forward/back John Cowan (13 Apr 2016 06:28 UTC)
Re: string-cursor-forward/back Alex Shinn (13 Apr 2016 06:48 UTC)
Re: string-cursor-forward/back Shiro Kawai (13 Apr 2016 06:53 UTC)
Re: string-cursor-forward/back John Cowan (13 Apr 2016 13:28 UTC)
Re: string-cursor-forward/back Per Bothner (16 Apr 2016 03:53 UTC)
General response to Per Bothner John Cowan (16 Apr 2016 05:11 UTC)

Re: string-cursor-forward/back Alex Shinn 13 Apr 2016 06:48 UTC

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 3:28 PM, John Cowan <xxxxxx@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Shiro Kawai scripsit:
>
>> It occurred to me that it might be useful that
>> string-cursor-{forward|back} returns #f (or any other value that is
>> invalid for cursors and indexes), instead of making it an error.
>
> On reflection, I think -forward and -back should just be removed.
> They are trivial iterations of -next and -prev, they don't exist in
> Chibi at present, and they have the problem you mention.  Unless someone
> objects, I will remove them before finalization.

I needed to add them to port to disjoint cursors.  Please keep them.

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Alex