"Duncan Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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| If you are generating paginated output then a function to generate an
| arbitrary page would likely want to enumerate starting at some value 
larger
| than one.
|
| Of course in that case you'll also want to skip part way through the 
data,
| but I think it is more likely that you'll want to enumerate the partial
| data (e.g. if it is a database query) rather than slice the enumeration.

Not if the data is split across multiple files.  I remember editing and 
printing a book from multiple files.   Decent word processors have an 
option to start page numbering at something other than 1.  Much bigger 
memories perhaps make this less common now.



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