A Pythonista's Impressions of Erlang

Dominic Williams erlang-list@REDACTED
Tue Jan 11 19:28:32 CET 2005


Corrado Santoro wrote:

> I would refer to the python slicing capability, i.e.:
> 
> a="Hello, World"
> a[5:-3] --> ", Wo"

Given what is already in the lists module,

slice("Hello, World", 5, -3) -> ...

must be a one- or two-liner.

Why bother with the syntactic sugar?

Regards,

Dominic Williams
http://www.dominicwilliams.net

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