Re: Substring indices everywhere? and the XS>< form

[d96-mst@xxxxxxxx (Mikael Ståldal)]

In article <200001031941.TAA28429@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, oleg@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>For another thing, substring is codified to be a procedure whose
>result is a first-class value. No such promises have been made about
>the XS>< notation.

But we DO WANT it do return a first-class value, otherwise we promote
writing ugly code.