Just to clarify, my wish was not for someone to write a helper function (which is not hard), it is for negative indexes to be supported by the core language.
Seth's opposition makes it pretty clear that this will not happen. But I want to point out that the reason offered for this opposition is lack of faith in the user. After many years of using Python, I cannot recall one time when my use of negative indexes has created a problem. And although James suggests that being able to reverse order by appropriate choice of index limits will produce head scratching, I have found it a wonderful and often used feature. In fact I would love for NetLogo to add a primitive `slice` reporter that fully supports Python-style slicing of lists and strings. (This could be done without making any other changes, although it would make `sublist` and `substring` somewhat redundant. If the developers oppose supporting negative indexing elsewhere, perhaps they can still consider such a new primitive.) Thanks for considering, Alan -- 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.
