Better slicing

[Tom]

In article <dun61g$30be$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, NN says...
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>What about more powerful slicing, like e.g. in Python ?
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>char[] x;
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>char[] y = x[0 : x.size : 1];
>char[] y = x[x.size : 1]; // Same
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>char[] z = x[x.size : 0 : -1]; // Reverse
>char[] z = x[x.size :: -1]; // Same
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>// Maybe with D syntax
>char[] x;
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>char[] y = x[0 .. x.size .. 1];
>char[] y = x[x.size .. 1]; // Same
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>char[] z = x[x.size .. 0 .. -1]; // Reverse
>char[] z = x[x.size .. .. -1]; // Same

I think it's enough how it is now. We'll never reach 1.0 if we keep adding
"luxuries" to the language, of course it's my humble oppinion. Instead I would
suggest to complete unfinished features, fix bugs and, if it is possible, to
make the almighty constness implementation in some way ;-). 

Tom;