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From: shafto@AMES-AURORA.ARPA (Michael Shafto)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re:  Substring positions
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Date: 31 Dec 87 18:52:18 GMT
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For what it's worth:  When I first started using Icon, I thought
the string/list subscripting conventions were extremely
counter-intuitive and confusing; and, in fact, they caused me
to make a number of annoying errors.  E.g., even if you know
better, a := el[1:3] looks like a good way to pick off the
first three elements of a list.

Now it seems to me that these conventions are unusual, but
worth getting used to.  Once you get the hang of them, they
seem pretty neat.

Mike