Re: [PATCHES] concat, read, substr, added 'ord' operator, and a SURPRISE

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:35 AM 11/11/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote: > > >No, it isn't. I'm not sure s->strlen is always gaurnteed to be correct; > >string_length(s) is. (I found a case where it was wrong when coding my > >version

Re: [PATCHES] concat, read, substr, added 'ord' operator, and a SURPRISE

2001-11-12 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:05:04PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Will. Docs, darn it! Must have docs! Tests, too, but if you have docs you > can rope someone into writing the tests and the lot of 'ya can submit a > chunk of patches. :) And if you have docs and tests, you might be able to convinc

Re: [PATCHES] concat, read, substr, added 'ord' operator, and a SURPRISE

2001-11-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:35 AM 11/11/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote: >On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Alex Gough wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Alex Gough wrote: > > > ook, cool, but string_length returns an INTVAL, not an int. > > Remember that people who say "negative" usually mean "positive", they > > just don't know it y

Re: [PATCHES] concat, read, substr, added 'ord' operator,and a SURPRISE

2001-11-11 Thread James Mastros
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Alex Gough wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Alex Gough wrote: > > ook, cool, but string_length returns an INTVAL, not an int. > Remember that people who say "negative" usually mean "positive", they > just don't know it yet. Always look on the bright si-ide of life, de > do, de d