bearophile wrote: <snip>
In Python you usually just omit the value: a[:5] === a[0 .. 5] a[5:] === a[5 .. $]
Which doesn't accommodate anything equivalent to a[$-4 .. $-2].
Or you can also use None, this can useful because you can put None inside a variable, etc (while in D you can't put $ inside a variable to represent "the end of that array"):
<snip> I don't understand this statement at all. Stewart.