Arc Forum | Arguably, no. cut uses firstn on lists, which works how you expected it to beha...

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4 points by fallintothis 4988 days ago | link | parent

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.