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From:
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
Date:
January 23, 2014 16:47
Subject:
Re: Range idea
Message ID:
20140123164741.5614d5b5@shy.leonerd.org.uk
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:32:53 +0100
Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:
> Why not simply add a weak keyword and avoid the entire syntax design
> exercise?
>
> qw( a b c d )[2 .. lastindex]
That doesn't solve the problem any more than any of the others do.
What would this do?
my @range = 2 .. lastindex;
my @letters = ('A' .. 'Z');
say @letters[@range];
?
Ultimately, 'lastindex' is going to fail however this works.
Why not just
sub slice
{
my ( $first, $last, @items ) = @_;
$last += @items if $last < 0;
return @items[$first..$last];
}
say slice 2, -1, 'A' .. 'Z'
This justworks.
If you want, I could pop that in List::Util right now, have it on CPAN
within the hour, available for all perls back to 5.8
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