Seek support for new slice syntax PEP.

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Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 12/14/2009 1:10 PM, geremy condra wrote:
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/
> 
> The moratorium does not stop proposals for things to be added after the
> moratorium ends. But it does show that Guido and the devs are reluctant
> to make *any* change to the core syntax of 3.x without really good
> reason. Absent that, I would not mind if the syntax remains frozen for
> the rest of 3.x. A minor abbreviation that makes the language look more
> like Perl will not cut it.
> 
> Terry Jan Reedy
> 


I agree, string slicing syntax is already a little oblique, it certainly
doesn't need complicating.

Anyway...

Simple is better than complex.
Readability counts.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

Roger.