Smart slicing

[bearophile]

Neal Becker:
> Silently ignoring the error is bad and unpythonic.  When I posted this
> opinion to python-devel BDFL Guido replied, basically agreeing with me, but
> saying it was too late to change.  But for D, Please no!

I see. But I don't see them changing this feature, even if they now can do it in Python 3.x.
(I think that D disables such error controls when you add the -release compiler flag. While you can't do that in Python. So the situation is quite different.)

Bye,
bearophile