> 
> It's defined in UnaryRecursiveAggregate of aggcat.spad:
>    last : (%, NonNegativeInteger) -> %
>       ++ last(u, n) returns a copy of the last n (\spad{n >= 0}) nodes of u.
>       ++ Note: \spad{last(u, n)} is a list of n elements.
> 
> 
> However, I think this signature is more suitable for tail,
> after all, we already have:
> 
> last : D -> D1 from D if D has URAGG(D1) and D1 has TYPE
> tail : D -> D from D if D has URAGG(D1) and D1 has TYPE
> 
> 
> So the reasonable extension is last(a,n) returns the nth last
> element and tail(a,n) returns the list of last n elements.

Yes it is resonable.  My only doubts is that as you
noticed there is only one place that currently uses
two argument 'last', so I am not sure how useful
is extending this functionality by adding new 'last'.

-- 
                              Waldek Hebisch

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