> If the colon is given then either or both of the indices can
> be omitted.
I see. So negative indices are a convenience, but index
computation is probably best done using positive indices
because coding the special case would be more awkward:
i = ... (index counting backward)
j = ... (other index counting backward)
if
j == -0
then
b = a[i:]
else
b = a[i:j]
> [) has become the norm in "new" languages?
I wouldn't know. Personally, I think inclusive-inclusive
indexing is more intuitive. (I also favor languages where
an array of length n has indices 1...n, unless explicitly
declared otherwise: "real, dimension(-5:5) :: a".
But I guess that's just me...)
