On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:07:00PM +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: > Arvin Schnell wrote: > > * @usage sublist ([ "a", "b", "c"], 0) -> [ "a", "b", "c" ] > > * @usage sublist ([ "a", "b", "c"], 2) -> [ "c" ] > > > It does not beat ruby's elegance. ;-)
Neither does it beat python's slice syntax elegance ;-) s = "hello world" s[6:] -> 'world' from 6th on s[:5] -> 'hello' upto 5th s[-5:] -> 'world' from 5th backwards on s[:-6] -> 'hello' upto 6th backwards s[2:8] -> 'llo wo' from 2nd to 8th s[2:8:2] -> 'low' from 2nd to 8th but only every second s[9:2:-2] -> 'lo l' :) But having to write "sublist(s, nil, -2, nil)" doesn't look so cool. cu Arvin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
