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From: Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Inclusive or exclusive array
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On 2019-07-31 13:22, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 7/30/2019 8:19 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
>> [...]
>> To be clear, what Eric was trying to say, was that likely the most
>> common idiom of the sort, in Java, is:
>>
>> [zero-based-index-inclusive, *length*]
> 
>     Sorry if I was too telegraphic, but that's not what I meant.
> What I *did* mean was
> 
>     - (inclusive start, exclusive end) is most common
>     - (inclusive start, length) is seen, less commonly
>     - (inclusive start, inclusive end) is seen, but is rare

Whoopsie, then. Thanks for correcting me.

-- 
DF.