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

[MRAB]

On 30/10/2013 23:00, Eric Snow wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> I though of using a magic symbol, $, for that -- a[$-n]. But aside from
>> the issue of using one of the 2 remaining unused ascii symbols for
>> something that can already be done, it would not work in a slice call.
>
> Is that like where you have 1 more shot on your camera and you don't
> want to use it for fear that something more spectacular might show up
> afterward?  (and hope that you didn't leave your lens cap on when you
> finally take the picture!)  :-)
>
I don't think it's that bad; I count 3: "!", "$" and "?". :-)