Re: Why is this so?
Re: Why is this so?
- Subject: Re: Why is this so?
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:53:34 +0100
At 20:59 +0100 23/01/01, Bill Briggs wrote:
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At 12:22 PM -0800 23/01/01, Michelle Steiner wrote:
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>yeah, I know; I think it should work the other way, though. :)
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Why? All you did was specify the boundary conditions for the text
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range. Do you think that this should be enough to invoke an implicit
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"invert string" operation?
Actually the only logical behavior would be to stick to the behavior of
"repeat" loops:
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repeat with i from N-1 thru 1
-- blah
end
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does nothing, and IMO text -1 thru 1 (which is really a shortcut for text
N-1 thru 1) would return "".
Emmanuel