JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 17d320b361babfb156f0acc0e116e0b600120fa7
File: j/string.j line 254
By StefanKarpinski:

@JeffBezanson: this is of particular note — here's a string type where `start(s)` is not always 1. I thought about other ways to do this and this ended up being the most sensible way.