Re: substring

2012-09-07 Thread nalaginrut
On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 21:49 +0400, . wrote: > Hi, > > Why do we need substring [1]? We already have string-copy which looks > similar to me. > (These functions take different number of arguments, but string-copy > can handle this because it's more generic.) > > Is this connected with compatabili

Re: substring

2012-09-07 Thread Ian Price
"." writes: > Hi, > > Why do we need substring [1]? We already have string-copy which looks > similar to me. > (These functions take different number of arguments, but string-copy > can handle this because it's more generic.) > > Is this connected with compatability, convenience or something else

Re: substring

2012-09-07 Thread Mike Gran
>   >Hi, > >Why do we need substring [1]? We already have string-copy which looks >similar to me. >(These functions take different number of arguments, but string-copy >can handle this because it's more generic.) I haven't looked at the code lately, but, it used to be that substring would allow yo