Bengt Richter wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:16:28 GMT, Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
>
>>The problem with negative index's are that positive index's are zero
>>based, but negative index's are 1 based. Which leads to a non
>>symmetrical situations.
Although it is _way_ too late to try something like this, once upon
a time you could have done all of this using the one's complement
operator:
~0 does exist and is distinct from 0.
So you could talk about a slice:
str[4 : ~2]
and so on.
--Scott David Daniels
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