Andrei Alexandrescu: > Python: > lst[0] > lst[len(lst)-1] I have not read the whole thread so someone else may have already answered, but that's not pythonic, the last item is represented as: >>> lst = "abcde" >>> lst[-1] 'e' >>> lst[-2] 'd' etc. You can write those in D as: lst[$-1] lst[$-2] Bye, bearophile