Smart slicing

[bearophile]

Trevor Parscal Wrote:
> Allowing out-of-bounds indexes hides bugs. An out of bounds index should always be an error which is considered exceptional.

I (like all all Ruby and Python programmers) use such things all the time, and only once in a while it actually produces a bug in my programs, so I presume you are wrong.


> If you handle the index wrapping yourself, it's obvious to everyone that in that particular case that would be an OK thing to do - in all other cases, it could potentially be an error..

In my post I am talking about using an alternative (standard) syntax fur such usages (to keep speed up, not to remove bugs).

Bye,
bearophile