@pedantic: I sometimes introduce newtypes for parameters in functions just to be sure, and am actually slightly in favor of having a position and a length/delta newtype.
Gruss, Christian * Ketil Malde <[email protected]> [11.12.2012 15:15]: > Christian Höner zu Siederdissen <[email protected]> writes: > > >> 'slice' would select a substring of a sequence, delimited by the > >> offsets. (Inclusive, I guess?) > > > start + length > > vs. > > start + stop > > coordinates? Vector uses start + length. > > Hm, yes. That is: please discuss! My first thought was the latter, but > consistency and ease of use will be important. > > I sometimes feel we really ought to differentiate the types of positions and > offsets, so that this would be safe and unambigous - but perhaps that > gets overly pedantic. :-) > > -k
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