Arc Forum | Should cut work this way?

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	Should cut work this way?
	4 points by garply 5227 days ago \| 1 comment
	(cut "ab" 0 10) throws an error, whereas I expected it to take as many characters as possible up to 10. Is there a different function that works this way? Do you think cut should work this way?

4 points by fallintothis 5220 days ago | link

Arguably, no. cut uses firstn on lists, which works how you expected it to behave for strings, which is inconsistent.

  arc> (firstn 10 '(a b))
  (a b)
  arc> (cut '(a b) 0 10)
  (a b)
  arc> (cut '(a b) 200 10)
  nil

Of course, cut could just throw errors for out-of-bounds list indices, too.

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