From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-06-11T20:57:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#rest

On Friday 11 June 2004 13:41, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:33:38PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > > Any particular objections to this?  Should I make this an RCR?
> >
> > If you want to do something about this I'd prefer a symmetric solution
> > like Array#head and Array#tail or Array#car and Array#cdr.
>
> first / rest is symmetric...
> head / tail unix commands don't default to 1 "line"
> car + cdr have crappy names.
> i'm sure there is something better for this :)
>

What about

#begin    == slice(0..-2)
#end    == slice(1..-1)

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Simon Strandgaard