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[Ellery Newcomer]

On 05/17/2010 10:15 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:02:05 -0400, Ellery Newcomer
> <ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Does your collections library allow for code like
>>
>> coll[coll.begin + 1 .. coll.end]
>
> No. begin and end return cursors, which are essentially non-movable
> pointers.
>
> The only collection where adding an integer to a cursor would be
> feasible is ArrayList, which does support slicing via indexes (and
> indexes can be added/subtracted as needed).
>

emphasis on the semantics (slice starting at second element), not the 
arithmetic, sorry.