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2 points by nex3 6171 days ago | link | parent

Ruby does it the other way:

  > "hello"[-3..-1]
  "llo"
However, given that we can do something like

  > (subseq "hello" -4)
  "ello"
if we want to take the last n characters, doing zero-based reverse indexing might make more sense.