On 29 May 2007, at 19:21, Mark J. Reed wrote:
My expectation before reading the delta was that negative counts would do a reversal:"123" x -1 = "321" ('a', 'b', 'c') xx -3 = ('c', 'b', 'a', 'c', 'b', 'a', 'c', 'b', 'a'); I don't know why I think that makes sense, but it was honestly my first thought. Does it make sense to anyone else? Is there a compelling reason I'm missing for having negative values behave as if they were zero rather than adding some other potentially useful functionality?
You're going to surprise people who use x to create padding strings if a negative count produces a padding string of the same length.
-- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
