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fixes #2420; negative indexing for slicing is obsolete (breaking change!)

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Araq 2015-03-28 00:15:04 +01:00
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echo x.T
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- **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