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Diffstat (limited to 'web')
| -rw-r--r-- | web/news.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt index 3d60540ec..0b28c29bf 100644 --- a/web/news.txt +++ b/web/news.txt @@ -59,11 +59,12 @@ News echo x.T inc x - - **Negative indexing for slicing is deprecated and will be removed in the - next version of the language.** Instead of ``a[0.. -1]`` you can + - **Negative indexing for slicing does not work anymore!** Instead + of ``a[0.. -1]`` you can use ``a[0.. ^1]``. This also works with accessing a single element ``a[^1]``. Note that we cannot detect this reliably as it is determined at **runtime** whether negative indexing is used! + ``a[0.. -1]`` now produces the empty string/sequence. - The compiler now warns about code like ``foo +=1`` which uses inconsistent spacing around binary operators. Later versions of the language will parse these as unary operators instead so that ``echo $foo`` finally can do what |