On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 07:48 -0400, bearophile wrote:

That's equal to Python, where you can write: array[5:] array[:5]
Something very close is possible in Haskell too.

Right, I just think it's nicer than array[5..length] :-)

array[5..] and array[..5] seem to make perfect sense to me and get rid of kludge like $.