[Python-Dev] IronPython and AST branch (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Sep 21 04:20:30 CEST 2006


On 9/17/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

One of the biggest issues I have with the current AST is that I don't believe it really gets the "slice" and "extended slice" terminology correct (it uses 'extended slice' to refer to multi-dimensional indexing, but the normal meaning of that phrase is to refer to the use of a step argument for a slice [1])

The two were introduced together and were referred to together as "extended slicing" at the time, so I'm not sure who is confused.

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