Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:39:34PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote:
| > Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > 
| > | +    if x < int(lst_ft[-1]) and x > int(lst_ft[-2]):
| > | +        sys.stderr.write("lyx2lyx: A development version file.\n")
| > | +        return lst_ft[-2]
| > 
| > Okay... what does this indexing mean?
| > 
| > indexes must be >= 0... are the converted to int? unsinged int?
| 
| A negative index -i in python means the i-th element from the end.
| So if the file version is in the interval (previous stable #, current dev #)
| we consider this file to be a development file, and decrease its version
| number to 'previous stable #'.

I read this as C/C++, and there negative subscripting means something
completely different.

-- 
        Lgb

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