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+discard """
+  errormsg: "expression 'result[1 .. BackwardsIndex(1)]' is of type 'string' and has to be used (or discarded)"
+  line: 10
+"""
+
+# bug #578
+
+proc test: string =
+  result = "blah"
+  result[1 .. ^1]
+
+echo test()