You also could if array[5 .. -3] implied length -3.

Similarly. array[-3] could imply array[array.length -3]...

But someone suggested against that, atleast for non-compile time checking. I would agree, for the non-literal instance that a negative integer of -5 shouldn't result in magical figuring out if the element needs to be pulled from the front or the back. But the literal case adds expressiveness, I think.

Cheers,
Scott S. McCoy

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 22:54 +0200, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:43:11 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Scott S. McCoy wrote:
>> array[5..] and array[..5] seem to make perfect sense to me and get rid  
>> of kludge like $.
>
> If $ were implicit, you couldn't do things like:
>
> 	array[5 .. $-3]


You could if it were only optional.

--Simen