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[REBOL] Re: Millennium + 1 ...

From: lmecir:mbox:vol:cz at: 6-Jan-2001 3:01

Hi, Gabriele wrote:
> Yet, I think there would be a problem; imagine this scenario: > > f: func [ > "Does something" > series [series!] > i [integer!] > ; ... > /local element > ] [ > ; We do something here > element: pick series i - 1 > ; we do something with ELEMENT > ] > > After debugging your function seems to work. You are confident in > it, but then, one day, something like this happens: > > f skip [1 2 3 4 5] 2 1 > > and you get unexpected results. > > (Well, all this is probably quite unlikely, but it might be the > source of one of those subtle bugs which make programmers go > crazy.) > > Regards, > Gabriele. > --
I am not sure, I understood you... Could you please compare with the SKIP-PROP implementaion I sent in? Regards Ladislav