From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Subseq relative to end of sequence Date: 24 Sep 2002 21:23:54 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3241891434120976@naggum.no> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1032902634 13201 129.240.65.5 (24 Sep 2002 21:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Sep 2002 21:23:54 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:41847 * Jacek Generowicz | Is there a built-in way, or an idiom for removing the last N elements | form a sequence (in my partictular case, a string) ? The language could have been defined such that a negative index would be interpreted to be from the end rather than from the beginning of a sequence. I sometimes think it should, since negative indices have no meaning now. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.