Re: [PATCH 5.005_63] Open-ended slices: (a..z)[23..]

[Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:13:39PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> Ranges are simply ordinary list expressions currently.  If we start
> down the path of giving ranges context sensitive magic, we should
> go a little farther for completeness.  I'd simply use negative indices
> (conceptual -0 included) to refer to things at the end.  (We'll assume
> absense of a number at the beginning stands for 0, and absense of a
> number at the end stands for -0.)

Why -0 ? currently an array index of -1 gives the last element, so
why would ranges be different

Graham.

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References to:

scozens@pwj.co.jp
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>

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