From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
> Just thought I'd throw in my two cents on the "standard"-ness of the
> substring proposal.  Java is zero-based and uses beginning and ending
> offset.

So for "standard" approaches there are:
- zero-based, start/end
- 1-based, start/end
- zero-based, start/length
- 1-based, start/length

So we can choose any one among these and be "standard".

I would prefer then to stick with start/end simply because that's the way
the proposal is written now, there was a two-month comment period, nobody
commented during that period, and the recent discussion has not offered a
compelling reason to change.

I haven't seen a compelling reason to change zero- to one-based either.

> I'd like to ask a meta-question here.  Is anyone going to implement this
> stuff?

Are you talking about the original proposal whose intention is to support
the marc index set, or the "augmented" proposal?

Yes we need the first.  I can't say whether we need the latter.

--Ray