A Pythonista's Impressions of Erlang

[Corrado Santoro]

Dominic Williams wrote:
> Given what is already in the lists module,
>>
>> a="Hello, World"
>> a[5:-3] --> ", Wo"
> 
> slice("Hello, World", 5, -3) -> ...
> 
> must be a one- or two-liner.
why not including such a function in "lists"?

> Why bother with the syntactic sugar?
I agree :-))

Cheers,
--Corrado

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