Re: Infinity as index

["Thiago L." <fakedme@...>]

On 24/04/2014 12:41, steve donovan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Thiago L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think it should expand +inf to #str and -inf to 1 (= passing -#str to the
> > function)...
> Actually, on 2nd thought, I agree with Lukas - I also would expect
> s:sub(inf) to be the empty string, seeing inf as the limit of
> increasing integer value.
>
> Although in practice - do bugs occur because of this?
Well something like what I said... I would actually expect str:sub(inf) 
to expand to str:sub(#str+1) and str:sub(-inf,inf) to expand to 
str:sub(0,#str+1)... or something...