Hello Rasmus,
Sunday, October 31, 2004, 11:27:40 PM, you wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, moshe doron wrote:
>> where the problem about 'taking it ever further'?
>> I'm +1 for {-1} and more +1 for {-4,2} python likeness.
> That starts getting confusing. I assume that translates to the 3rd and
> 4th chars from the end of the string. And, to verify that I went and
> looked it up and it turns out that's not the case in Python. They use
> [start_index:end_index] so [-4:2] would be the 4th char from the end until
> the 2nd char in the string, so for a 6 char string or longer that would
> return nothing, but worse, my initial guess at what it did was wrong. I
> don't like features where my first guess at what something does is wrong.
Same from here. If we do it it should behave like a short form of substr.
Best regards,
Marcus mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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