Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes

[Peter Otten]

Chris Rebert wrote:

> On Jun 14, 2013 10:26 PM, <ian.l.cameron at gmail.com> wrote:

>> What is the thinking behind stopping 'one short' when slicing or
>> iterating through lists?

> I find Dijkstra's explanation rather convincing:
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

This is the only case where I prefer the pdf ;)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF