[Bro-Dev] #422: Array-style index accessor for strings

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#422: Array-style index accessor for strings
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  Reporter:  seth           |      Owner:  robin
      Type:  Merge Request  |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal         |  Milestone:  Bro2.2
 Component:  Bro            |    Version:
Resolution:  fixed          |   Keywords:  language
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Comment (by matthias):

 Replying to [comment:4 robin]:
 > Merging, but what would you guys think about {{{s[1:4]}}} instead of
 {{{s[1,4]}}} (i.e., Pythonian)?

 I prefer the `s[1,4]` syntax, as I find it more consistent with the
 language at this point. We currently do not have the notion of a "range".
 Once we do, it would make sense to apply this concept to any enumerable
 types, like containers. Then "`range(1, 4)`" can have some sort of
 syntactic sugar (for Rubyists, that would be `1..4` and for the Pythonians
 `1:4`, so there's room for discussion :-).

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