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From: Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Never using booleans as parameters
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Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> writes:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:45:39 -0500, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
>>On 11/23/2015 9:10 AM, Eric Douglas wrote:

>>> // beginIndex (zero-based), endIndex
>>> y = x.substring(0,4)

>>Documenting something like this is an indication of a problem
>>in my opinion.

>      But documenting something as 0-based when that is unusual would
> be a good idea.  (I know that it is not that here.)

Documenting whether something is 0-based or 1-based is ALWAYS a good
idea, no matter which one is usual in which case.

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Jukka Lahtinen