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* Simon Wright:

> I don't remember ever using 'Pred/'Succ, but I'd sorely miss
> 'First/'Last.

Personally, I find it rather odd that array bounds are preserved by
slicing.  This feature doesn't come for free, and leads to slightly
more verbose code without conveying useful information.  On the other
hand, it makes array indexing effectively zero-based, which I find
more natural.