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

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm not even able to come up with some concrete use-case where I'd
> like to have the suggested behavior.

It's a very common use case for me.  I know that a string can't be
longer than X for some particular use, so I have to say

(insert (if (> (length string) 4)
            (substring string 0 4)
          string))

or something.          

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