JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 438d93bd7291171ab57f51d299c5277a3a03886f
File: j/string.j line 841
By JeffBezanson:

Is there a separate function and all those ugly underscores just to avoid 2 integer comparisons? Surely that isn't worth it? Especially since it means an extra function call in the general case?