Re: Why (substring "abc" 0 4) does not return "abc" instead of an error?

[Bastien]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> It is a good reason not to change the old behaviour. However
> introducing a new function in Emacs like the one you suggest would
> save time for all those who need this function. 

Well, a third argument to let the function fail quitely would do.

> (It is hard for me even to come up with an example where I do not want
> this instead of the old one.)

For me too :)

-- 
 Bastien