I agree with Seth. How about the following instead? to-report item-from-end [number list-or-string] report item (length list-or-string - number) list-or-string end
-ken On 24 August 2014 19:00, Seth Tisue <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Isaac <[email protected]> writes: > > Alan> Today I was once again wishing for negative list indexes (e.g., > Alan> -1 for the last item) for lists. Has this been considered as a > Alan> possible NetLogo feature? > > I hope not. I consider this a serious design blunder in the languages > that offer it. It's very easy to do compute an incorrect index by > accident, and if you do, you really want your program to blow up > immediately, not access the wrong element and keep chugging. > > -- > Seth Tisue | Northwestern University | http://tisue.net > developer, NetLogo: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "netlogo-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "netlogo-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
