Negative array indicies and slice()

[Michael Torrie]

On 10/30/2012 09:47 AM, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Let's not confound an issue here -- I am going to implement the python 
> interpreter; and am not bound by optimization considerations of the 
> present python interpreter -- There are things I can do which as a 
> python programmer -- you can't.  I have no choice but to re-implement 
> and optimize the interpreter -- the question is merely how to go about it.

As this is the case, why this long discussion?  If you are arguing for a
change in Python to make it compatible with what this fork you are going
to create will do, this has already been fairly thoroughly addressed
earl on, and reasons why the semantics will not change anytime soon have
been given.