I prefere range(variable,start,end) for that reason, and have an optional argument to 'copy' that means the number of levels that will be copied.
/ Per Hedbor ()
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2003-03-06 14:17: Subject: negative indices in array ranges
I'm more conserned that it is harder to read. I'm not a bit fan of commonly used functions that are fed a large number of hard to place integers.
/ Peter Bortas