Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment:

The current behavior is inconsistent because the start position accepts both 
positive and negative indices, whereas the end position only accepts positive 
indices.
I think the proposal and the PR written by Anil are reasonable and should be 
merged.

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