[0df8dkdf]

Seems like slice operator is more like Syntactic sugar for substring?

[mikedelfino]

I'm not the author of the comment you're replyin to, but doesn't that fall under the worse ergonomics argument?

[danpalmer]

I am the author, and yes this is exactly the sort of thing I mean.

Python/Ruby are far more expressive for these sorts of data manipulation tasks.