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

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/30/2013 7:59 PM, MRAB wrote:
> 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 "?". :-)
 >>> 2 != 3
True


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Terry Jan Reedy