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		Zarel on Jan 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why numbering should start at zero (1982) That only works if you're ranging from 0 to n-1, though. A popular way to partition an array at i and j is to do: `arr[0..<i], arr[i..<j], arr[j...-1]`

a1369209993 on Jan 28, 2020 [–]

  a0,a1,a2 = arr.splitat({i,j})

maybe? It avoids repeating i and j twice and arr thrice, at least. Admittedly, there probably are cases where you really do want a range [x..^y] for arbitrary x and y, but it seems like most cases aren't.

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