One such argument is that it doesn't extend to indexing single elements.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2004-01-21 02:05: Subject: Sql interface
I know that I favor [:-1], i.e. letting [x..y] work as before and having [x:y] do the sizeof(a)-y-1 for you. There were probably some good arguments against this, but I can't remember them.
/ Martin Nilsson (saturator)