From: Bertram Scharpf Date: 2009-10-30T22:43:40+09:00 Subject: Re: How do you get the tail end of a string? Hi, Am Freitag, 30. Okt 2009, 21:06:11 +0900 schrieb David A. Black: > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Bertram Scharpf wrote: >>> >>> string[-index, index]. >> >> That's really ugly. You shouldn't have to mention `index' twice. > > I don't think there's anything wrong with it. It works well, and > there's nothing stylistically wrong with using a local variable twice. What when it's a method call? Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de