Re: [RFC] linecut addition

[Steven Schubiger]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:

> >I fail to see where your descriptions don't apply to the current
> >working mechanism (implying that I eventually don't fully grok your 
> >wording).
> 
> Probably, because...
>
> [...]
>
> ...you obviously feel that '+0' means 'output no lines' and the last 
> line is '-1', not '-0'. (There is nothing wrong with this, I was just 
> noting that this is not the only possible interpretation.) Now that we 
> agree on our definitions, we (by which I mean "I") just need to try not 
> to mix them up :-).

Agreed. Both (the prefered & neglected) ways of operation are outlined 
below for the sake of completeness.
 
current implementation (prefered)
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
 -9  -8  -7  -6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1

discussed implementation (neglected)
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
 -8  -7  -6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1  -0