Slice confusion : a[n:p] is a list exclude the last element p

[andrew cooke]

Alex Martelli said:
> It's an important design principle, which I first saw proposed in print
> by Andrew Koenig in his landmark book "C Traps and Pitfalls": *all bounded
> loops should be first-bound-included, last-bound-excluded* -- and which I
> will therefore call "Koenig's Principle" although I have never seen the
[...]

hmmm.  also appeared in his "ruminations on c++".  is there a subset of
his books that covers all his wisdom? ;o)

andrew

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