On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:30:27AM -0600, David Green wrote:
: I actually found things I liked in pretty much all the suggested 
: alternatives, but none of them reached out and grabbed me by the throat 
: the way "nth" did.  It just seems more Perlish.

Yow.  Presumably "nth" without an argument would mean the last.  So

    @ints[1st..nth]

means

    @ints[*]

And if it's a unary with an optional arg, we can write

    @ints[nth+1..nth-1]

Hmm, that's not quite right.  My wife looks over my shoulder and
says "What about zth?"  Not knowing the history of A..Z already...

But yeah, nth is pretty grabby.

Larry

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