[Python-ideas] Where did we go wrong with negative stride?

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I'm not sure I like new syntax. We'd still have to find a way to 
> represent this with slice() and also with range().

If we allowed slice[...] to create slice objects, any new
indexing syntax would carry over to that.

Similarly we could use range[...] to create ranges using
slice syntax.

-- 
Greg