Really expose range-indexer? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (31 Aug 2020 18:35 UTC)
Re: Really expose range-indexer? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (31 Aug 2020 19:11 UTC)
Re: Really expose range-indexer? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (31 Aug 2020 19:23 UTC)
Re: Really expose range-indexer? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (31 Aug 2020 19:31 UTC)
Re: Really expose range-indexer? John Cowan (01 Sep 2020 02:44 UTC)

Re: Really expose range-indexer? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 31 Aug 2020 19:11 UTC

On 2020-08-31 20:35 +0200, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> As it is not clear to me what is a good use case of range-indexer
> after all, I would consider dropping the procedure.

Agreed.  It should be dropped.  I can't think of any reason to expose
it, especially since some range operations return ranges whose indexers
have unpredictable behavior on their own--i.e. without taking into
account the `start-index' and `length' bounds of a range.

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Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe  <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz>

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