Re: XML/HTML-specific ?< and ?> operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

[David L. Nicol]

Bart Lateur wrote:
> 
> On 06 Sep 2000 18:04:18 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
> >I think the -1 indexing for "end of array" came from there.  Or at
> >least, it was in Perl long before it was in Python, and it was in Icon
> >before it was in Perl, so I had always presumed Larry had seen Icon.
> >Larry?


I thought he got it from the substr function in CDC mainframe BASIC, which
in which negative positions mean "from the end of the string"